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Mystery Book Discussion
Tuesday September 14, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 The Redbreast
by Jo Nesbo
The legacy of Norway’s World War II experience weighs heavily on the search for a psychopathic neo-Nazi skinhead by Inspector Harry Hole of the Norwegian Security Service.
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Book Buzz
Tuesday September 14, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library
 Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
The lives of blacks and whites, both living and dead, are skillfully intertwined in rich historical detail in this ambitious novel about the Civil Rights struggle in Birmingham, Alabama during the 1960s.
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Business Book Discussion
Wednesday September 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Main Library
 Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize`s autobiography chronicles the life of a man who has made a positive infuence on millions of lives in Bangladesh.
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Book Discussion
Tuesday September 28, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma Wodehouse is a matchmaker who meets with the most unexpected results in this 19th century comedy of manners often deemed to be Austen`s finest novel.
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Book Buzz
Tuesday October 12, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library Teen Center
Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
Stegner explores the bonds of a long friendship between two couples despite vast differences in their upbringing and social status.
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Mystery Book Discussion
Tuesday October 19, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 Wife of the Gods
by Kwei J. Quartey
The murder of a controversial young woman, who had been campaigning against AIDS in a remote village in Ghana, sends Detective Darko Dawson of the Accra police to investigate.
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Book Discussion
Tuesday October 26, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 Homer and Langley: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
This is the story of the two infamous Collyer brothers, hermits who occupied a shuttered Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City.
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Mystery Book Discussion
Tuesday November 09, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 Trace Evidence
by Elizabeth Becka
Evelyn James, a forensic investigator in the Cuyahoga County coroner’s office and a single mother who is dealing with a teenage daughter upset about her parents` divorce, attempts to solve the gruesome slayings of several young women just a few years older than her daughter.
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Book Buzz
Tuesday November 09, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
by Deborah Davis
This is the personal history of Virginie Gautreau the twenty-three-year old New Orleans Creole who moved to Paris and a relatively unknown painter, John Singer Sargent, who won the commission to paint her.
I Am Madame X
by Gioia Diliberto
This richly imagined novel illuminates the struggle between American beauty, Virginie Gautreau, and John Singer Sargent, painter of the controversial painting that shocked the 1884 Paris Salon.
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Business Book Discussion
Wednesday November 17, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
 Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcom Gladwell
In statistics, an outlier is a significant distance from the norm. The author takes this concept and applies it to exceptionally successful people, studying their personal characteristics and environment.
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Book Discussion
Tuesday November 23, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Sister Mary Joseph Praise and Dr. Thomas Stone are the main characters in this riveting story that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner city hospital in New York City.
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Mystery Book Discussion
Tuesday December 14, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
Where Memories Lie
by Deborah Crombie
When a diamond brooch stolen decades ago turns up for sale at a London auction house, its owner, a retired academic who escaped Nazi Germany with her now deceased husband, turns to Metropolitan Police Inspector Gemma James for help.
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Book Buzz
Tuesday December 14, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Main Library
 Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
The compelling voice of a refugee illuminates the life-changing friendship between two women that began with a horrifying encounter on a secluded Nigerian beach.
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Book Discussion
Tuesday December 28, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library
The Sheen on the Silk
by Anne Perry
In the year 1273, a physician and devoted sister arrives in Constantinople to prove the innocence of her brother.
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