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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

WATER FOR ELEPHANTSWATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen

Date: September 18, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

An Arsonist's GuideAN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND by Brock Clarke

Date: October 16, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Sam Pulsifer is determined to put his past behind him after serving a prison term for torching an American literary landmark and killing two people in the blaze, but when the homes of notable American writers begin to go up in smoke, his history makes him the prime suspect.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

TEAM OF RIVALSTEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Date: November 20, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election above three accomplished candidates, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in forming his cabinet and winning the Civil War.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

Meet to discuss books for the coming year.

Date: December 18, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

RUNRUN by Ann Patchett

Date: January 15, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GODTHEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston (THE BIG READ)

Date: February 19, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

An enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

BOOK THIEFBOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak

Date: March 12, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITYDEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Date: April 16, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event - architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

A PAINTED HOUSEA PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham

Date: May 21, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community. Check the catalog bullet

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

MY STROKE OF INSIGHTMY STROKE OF INSIGHT by Jill Bolte Taylor

Date: June 18, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

A brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and the steps she took over a period of eight years to recover her health. Check the catalog bullet

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

LOVING FRANKLOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan

Date: July 16, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society. Check the catalog bullet

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

NETHERLANDNETHERLAND by Joseph O'Neill

Date: August 20, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Abandoned amid the offbeat inhabitants of the Chelsea Hotel when his English wife and son return to London following September 11th, Hans, a banker originally from the Netherlands, struggles to find himself in his adopted country. Check the catalog bullet

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

marchMARCH by Geraldine Brooks

Date: September 17, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences. Check the catalog bullet

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

LOLITALOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

Date: October 15, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

EMBERS EMBERS by Sándor Márai

Date: November 19, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Following a forty-one year separation, two men reunite in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains to share stories and accusations touching on their lives and that of a third person, the now-dead lady of the castle. Check the Catalog arrow

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

Holiday social and planning/choosing books for 2010.

Date: December 17, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

EMBERSANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy

Date: January 21, 2010
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
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Central-Brown Baggers Book Group ( adult )

my father's tearsA LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines

Date: February 18, 2010
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The story of two African American men struggling to attain manhood in a prejudiced society, the tale is set in Bayonne, La. in the late 1940s. It concerns Jefferson, a mentally slow, barely literate young man, who, though an innocent bystander to a shootout between a white store owner and two black robbers, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and the sophisticated, educated man who comes to his aid. Check the Catalog arrow