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4th Tuesday Evening Book Discussion
Tuesday May 28, 2013
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Main Library

book cover The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka

Set in 20th century San Francisco, this is the story of six Japanese mail-order brides whose lives are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

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Book Buzz
Tuesday June 11, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library

 The Train of Small Mercies
by David Rowell

This debut novel depicts six different lives that are changed as they follow the funeral train carrying Robert F. Kennedy’s body to Washington.

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Mystery Book Discussion
Tuesday June 11, 2013
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Main Library

book cover The King of Diamonds
by Simon Tolkien

Oxford Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for an escaped prisoner serving a life sentence for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s lover and now a prime suspect for the murder of his ex-girlfriend on the night of his escape.

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4th Tuesday Evening Book Discussion
Tuesday June 25, 2013
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Main Library

book cover In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson

This is the true story of Germany in the early years of Hitler’s regime, as reflected in the experiences of William Edward Dodd, the United States Ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha.

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Book Buzz
Tuesday July 09, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library

 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard

This narrative account of the 20th president`s political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell`s failed attempt to save him from an assassin`s bullet.

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Book Buzz
Tuesday August 13, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library

 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist spent years researching her book on life in a Mumbai slum. Her narrative nonfiction offers a dramatic and heartbreaking story of families struggling for a better life in one of the 21st century`s great, but unequal cities.

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