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Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, Sept. 13
10:30 am -12:00 pm

Join the Book Club for a discussion of Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts. This is an inspirational look into the trials and tribulations of some of the historical women who helped shape our nation into what it has become. The book discusses the many facets of their lives and how they supported some of the founders of our country. Some of the women included are Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene. Main floor.

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado, 20 de septiembre
11:00 am -12:30 pm

El Hombre Duplicado de José Saramago

Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier, and when he decides to find his double, he learns a difficult lesson about the impact of experience on one's identity. Main floor.

Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, Sept. 27
10:30 am -12:00 pm

Join mystery lovers to discuss Person of Interest by Theresa Schwegel. Her marriage to Craig, an undercover Chicago cop, cracking under the stress of his job, Leslie McHugh launches her own investigation when $1000 mysteriously vanishes from their joint bank account and Craig cannot provide an explanation, and when their teenage daughter Ivy turns up at the center of her husband's probe into a snitch's murder. Main floor.

     
   
   
Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, Oct. 11
10:30 am-12:00 pm

Join the Book Club for a discussion of The Archivist by Martha Cooley and The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. The Archivist is Matthias Lane who guards the sealed letters between T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale. A political and literary satire, The Uncommon Reader pokes fun at the British monarchy while touching on serious issues. Main floor.

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado, 18 de octubre
11:00 am -12:30 pm

Doña Bárbara de Romulo Gallegos

Publicada por primera vez en 1929, este clásico de la literatura venezolana y latinoamericana narra el apasionado triángulo amoroso entre Santos Luzardo, doña Bárbara y su hija, Marisela.


Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, Oct. 25
10:30 am-12:00 pm

Join us to discuss Down River by John Hart. Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Chase returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in thecrimes. Main floor.

     
   
     
 
 
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