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Monday Evening Book Club
Meets monthly on the 1st Monday of each month 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Please drop in and join us!
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Monday Evening Book Club
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini
June 02, 2008
7:00 pm
Tells the wonderful, intensely moving story of how two modern Afghan women overcome the great challenges that have faced women in Afghanistan and rise above their victimization.
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Monday Evening Book Club
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
July 07, 2008
7:00 pm
The Bridge of San Luis Rey opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy--a tiny foot-bridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question in inescapable. Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives they led--and whether it was divine intervention or a capricious fate that took their lives.
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Live Poets Society
The Live Poets Society meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00 p.m. Come and share original poetry, or just listen.
The Literary Masterpiece Book Group
Meets at 10am on the first and third Fridays of each month to discuss literary classics. The group meets from September to May. For further information, call Tod Oliver (434) 296-4041.
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The Literary Masterpiece Book Group
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
May 16, 2008
10:00 am
Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family.
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The Wednesday Night Book Group
This group meets at 7:30 pm, the second Wednesday of each month to share insights on a variety of classic and contemporary fiction.
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Wednesday Night Book Group
REIVERS: A REMINISCENCE by William Faulkner
May 14, 2008
7:30 pm
Great comic novel of 3 young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
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Wednesday Night Book Group
DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee
June 11, 2008
7:30 pm
In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer.
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Book Discussion Group
Book Discussion Group meets the first Thursday of every month, at 7 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room. All are welcome. For information or ride sharing, please call the library at 985-5227.
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Book Discussion Group
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdich
June 05, 2008
7:00 pm
As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.
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Book Discussion Group
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer
July 03, 2008
7:00 pm
Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
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Film Series - Fourth Wednesdays
Funded by the Friends of Greene County Library, these are award winning, first run, independent and foreign films from the top festivals, shown on the BIG SCREEN (in surround sound!) in the library meeting room. Come on out -- it's FREE and it's FUN. Join your friends, sip some coffee, watch a great film and join in a discussion afterwards. These films have not been rated by the MPAA and should be assumed to have mature content.
Film Series - Fourth Wednesdays
“NOISE” Directed by Matthew Saville Australia
May 28, 2008
7:00 pm
This is a story about the wrong person in the right place at the wrong time. Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. Police quickly connect them but are desperate for witnesses as the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority. RUNNING TIME: 109 min. RELEASE DATE: 2007
Brown Bag Book Club
Fourth Monday of each month (with some exceptions) from 12 to 2 pm. Like to Read? Like to Talk? Join us at our Book Club Group! Call the library at 263-5904 for more information.
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Brown Bag Book Club
UNCOMMON READER by Alan Bennett
May 19, 2008
12:00 pm
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Brown Bag Book Club
CARPE DIEM by Autumm Cornwell
June 23, 2008
12:00 pm
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
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Brown Bag Book Club
A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
July 28, 2008
12:00 pm
Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Appalachian Trail, a wry account by the author of The Lost Continent traces an adventurous trek past the trail's natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.
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Books Sandwiched In
Third Fridays (lunchtime 12-1 pm) Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, this is a series of presentations of books reviewed by noted local people. Why not bring a sandwich and join us? All programs are free and open to the public. For more information about the books and their reviewers, call 973-7893.
Meets January-May and September-November.
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Books Sandwiched In
DEMOCRACY REBORN: THE 14th AMENDMENT AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICA by Garrett Epps
May 16, 2008
12:00 pm
The author of this passionate history of Reconstruction politics argues that "the source of our rights is not Philadelphia 1787 but Washington 1866."
Reviewed by Dr. Rick Potter, Adjunct Professor of History, Mary Baldwin College
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Wednesday Night Book Group
This new group meets the third Wednesday of each month, 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Please stop in and join us.
Wednesday Night Book Group
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini
May 21, 2008
7:00 pm
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. By the author of The Kite Runner.
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Wednesday Night Book Group
LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel
June 18, 2008
7:00 pm
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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