Baldwin Public Library

400 Cedar Street * P.O. Box 475 * Baldwin,  WI 54002-0475

Phone: (715) 684-3813 ** Fax: (715) 684-5115

Email: baldwinlibrary@ifls.lib.wi.us

www.BaldwinLibrary.org

Book Discussion Groups

All are welcome!   Books are chosen by the group's participants.

Meetings are normally the second Tuesday of the month at 1:00, or the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7pm.  Anyone is welcome; registration is not required. Copies of the books are available in the MORE system and can be requested online or at the library.  Call Rebecca at 684-2116 (or email dixen@baldwinlibrary.org) if you'd like her to reserve a book for you.

Click on the title of the book to search for available copies in the MORE online catalog.

Afternoon Group:  Tuesday, July 8, 2008 --  1:00pm

 Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

This timeless classic is a fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. It follows an Oklahoman farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California, where the talk is all about paradise valleys, green and ripe with fruit, and lots of jobs for migrant laborers.  Like many others, the family is forced to adjust their way of life as the country adjusts from the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties.  Their hope is found in each other, in the collective strength of all the common people who make the country work, and in their knowledge of the land.  Written by one of America's greatest authors, the story shows the tragic effects of the Great Depression and years of draught on the rural heartland of the US.  The book was made into a 1940  movie that has become a classic as well, starring Henry Fonda as the central character of Tom Joad, trying to keep his family together in uncertain times.

Evening Group: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 -- 7:00pm

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - her mother's death when Lily was four.  Since then, her only real companion has been Rosaleen, a fierce-hearted black woman and "stand-in  mother".  When Rosaleen insults three town racists, Lily and she take off for Tiburon, a name found on the back of a picture that belonged to Lily's mother.  There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters named May, June, and August.  Maternal loss and betrayal, guilt and forgiveness, all are here entwined in a story that leads Lily to the single thing her heart longs for most.  Set in the early 1960s.

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