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| | Book Reading Discussion Group for Adults The Jay County Public Library Reading Group meets monthly for informal discussions of selected books. Volunteer leaders for each session help facilitate discussion, but the group rarely needs extra encouragement to share thoughts on the reading. Members also make selections for the upcoming months. Meetings are scheduled for 7:00 p.m. the third Monday of the month. Upcoming books and meetings: July 16, 2012 The Territory by Tricia Fields August 20, 2012 The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew September 17, 2012 The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow October 15, 2012 Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman November 19, 2012 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks December 17, 2012 Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor If you are interested in joining the group, please register at the library. Arrangements can be made for you to purchase a copy of the book for each month (paperback when possible), or to add your name to the reserve list for one of the library's copies. For more information inquire at the circulation desk or call (260) 726-7890. Here's a chronological list of the Reading Group's monthly selections since their first meeting in November 1997: 1997 and 1998 Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt The Beantrees by Barbara Kingsolver Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Wait 'til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1999 The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans Oral History by Lee Smith Beloved by Toni Morrison Waist-high in the World by Nancy Mairs Midwives by Christopher A. Bohjalian Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
2000 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Testament by John Grisham Weight of Water by Anita Shreve How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael Gelb Shantyboat: a River Way of Life by Harlan Hubbard Fidelity by Wendell Berry While I Was Gone by Sue Miller The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
2001 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Shopgirl by Steve Martin Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams Julia's Mother by William Bonadio Map of the World by Jane Hamilton A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes Plainsong by Kent Haruf Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
2002 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Personal History by Katharine Graham A Painted House by John Grisham Bee Season by Myla Goldberg The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar Washington by Meg Greenfield Beanblossom Dreams by Sallyann Murphey The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
2003 The Black Flower by Barbara H. Bahr Poetry Out Loud edited by Robert Alden Rubin
with introduction by James Earl Jones Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Big Stone Gap by Adrianna Trigiani Big Cherry Holler by Adrianna Trigiani Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami House of Windows by Adina Hoffman The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
2004 A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson The Sparrow by Doria Russell The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter Our Simple Gifts by Owen Parry
2005 Blood Runs Like a River through My Dreams by Nasdijj Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Leap by Terry Tempest Williams The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
2006 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott Jay County Reads! Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Hot Flash Flash Club Strikes Again by Nancy Thayer
2007 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi The Widow's War by Sally Gunning The Woodsman's Daughter by Gwyn Rubio-Hyman This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella Jay County Reads! Jacquelyn Mitchard - any of Mitchard's books Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut The Virginian by Owen Wister Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons
2008 Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Death at LaFenice by Donna Leon Me: Stories of My Life by Katherine Hepburn Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen My Antonia by Willa Cather Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
2009 Loving Frank by Nancy Horan The Shack by William P. Young Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Truck, a Love Story by Michael Perry A Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Cross Country by James Patterson The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2010 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Burrows Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossein The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith
2011 The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, New Foundland by Jim de Fede The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Jansen Killing Floor by Lee Child A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg 2012 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan Swamplandia by Karen Russell
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