Everyone is welcome! Books to be read are chosen by the group members.
Books chosen are slightly older popular titles so that we can order multiple copies from the MORE system and no book purchase is necessary to participate. For more info: Rebecca 684-3813
Afternoon Group - Tues. Mar 13, 1:00 pm: We will continue discussion of The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
For Tues., Apr. 10th, 1:00pm: Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
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A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's death, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhouses are divided by social class as well as taste. They would certainly not have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And, even more unsuitably, become involved with the gravedigger's muddy son. As the girls grow up, as the new king changes social customs, as a new, forward-thinking era takes wing, the lives and fortunes of the two families become more and more closely intertwined-neighbors in life as well as death.
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Evening Group: Sister, by Rosamund Lupton
Nothing can break the bond between sisters ...When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life - and unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face. The police, Beatrice's fiance and even their mother accept they have lost Tess but Beatrice refuses to give up on her. So she embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth, no matter the cost.
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Middle School Book Club will meet again this fall. Anyone in grades 5-8 is welcome! The free book will be handed out a the first meeting on Tues. Nov. 15th from 3:45 - 4:45. You will have two weeks to read (this includes Thanksgiving break) and we will conclude discussion on Nov. 29th. The book to be read this time is the highly awarded Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin. You can pick up a bus pass after Nov. 1st in the Viking School Library. For more information or to reserve a book, call Bonnie or Rebecca at the library: 684-3813. ******
