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On the third Thursday of the month bring your lunch to the Central Branch of JMRL and discuss fiction and non-fiction books. Library staff will provide value-added content and lead the discussion. Drinks and desserts will be provided. Send an email to be added to our mailing list.

Brown Baggers’ selections for 2011:

• The Maples Stories by John Updike (January 2011)

• Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (February 2011)

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (March 2011 The group's meeting will be March 24th instead of 17th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)

• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (April 2011)

• Look Homeward, Angel by Tom Wolfe (May 2011)

• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (June 2011)

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (July 2011)

Brown Baggers’ selections for 2010:

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (January 2010)

• A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (February 2010)

• An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (The group's meeting will be March 11th instead of 18th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)

• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (April 2010)

• The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (May 2010)

• A Cook's Tour : in Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain (June 2010)

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (July 2010)

• City of Thieves by David Benioff (August 2010)

• The Professor and the Mad Man by Simon Winchester (September 2010)

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (October 2010)
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (November 2010)

No selection for December 2010

Brown Baggers’ selections for September 2008 – November 2009:

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (September 2008)

• An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (October 2008)

• A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (November 2008)

No selection for December 2008

• Run by Ann Patchett (January 2009)

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (February 2009)

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (March 2009)

• Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (April 2009)

• The Painted House by John Grisham (May 2009)

• My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor (June 2009)

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (July 2009)

• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (August 2009)

• March by Geraldine Brooks (September 2009)

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (October 2009)

• Embers by Sàndor Màrai (November 2009)

No selection for December 2009