H. B. Stamps Adult Reading Group List For
August 2011 through February 2012
ADULT BOOK GROUP MEETS ON 3RD
THURSDAY FROM 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (NF)
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
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Teen Book Club Reading List
TEEN BOOK CLUB IS HELD 4TH THURSDAY
FROM 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 16 year old Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is on a freighter journeying to his new home in Canada. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift on the Pacific Ocean on a 26 foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a hyena, a seasick orangutan and a 450 lb. tiger named Richard Parker!
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Annexed by Sharon Dogar - The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - Trapped by Michael Northrop - Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
November Bookclub will not meet on its regular week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - Empty by Suzanne Weyn - When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
Please call the H.B. Stamps Rogersville Library at 423/272-8710 with questions regarding the reading group selections.