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Participation in the Book Discussion Group and Mystery Book Group is free and open to all interested adults (co-ed). No registration is necessary - just read the book and come to the meeting. You can come to just one meeting, or come to all! Both groups meet from 7:00 - 8:45 PM in the Community Room (lower level).

This is a structured group that follows the Great Books program. This year the group will be reading selections from the Fifth Series. Discussions are led by 2 group leaders, and follow the Shared Inquiry method. The group meets from 7:00 to 8:45 PM in the Community Room (lower level). For more information, call 978-448-8000. 

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GPL Book Discussion Group Reading List - 2008/2009
Date Title Author
September 23, 2008 Here If You Need Me: A True Story
*featuring a visit from the author
Kate Braestrup
October 28 Of Men and Their Mothers
*featuring a visit from the author
Mameve Medwed
November 18 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations--One School at a Time Greg Mortensen and David O. Relin
December 16 Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson
January 27, 2009 Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen
February 24 Nineteen Minutes: A Novel Jodi Picoult
March 24 Mr. Emerson's Wife
Amy Belding Brown
April 28 Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being Todd Balf
May 26 Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America Russell Shorto
June 23
*pot luck dinner at a member’s home
Knockemstiff Donald Ray Pollack

 

GPL Mystery Book Group Reading List - 2008/2009
Date Title Author
September 18, 2008 Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson
October 16 The Wrong Abraham
David Brody
November 20 A Grave in Gaza Matt Beynon Rees
December (No meeting in December)
January 15, 2009 Tug of War Beverly Cleverly
February 19 To Darkness & To Death Julia Spencer-Fleming
March 19 Memory Book Howard Engel
April 16 Gentlemen and Players Joanne Harris
May 21 Judgment of the Grave Sarah Stuart Taylor
June 18 TBA
July TBA
August TBA

 

GPL Great Books Group Reading List - 2008/2009
From: The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler
Date Title Author
September 11, 2007 Pride
"A Rose for Emily"
"Good Country People"

William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
October 9 Anger
"Mary Postgate"
"Hairball"

Rudyard Kipling
Margaret Atwood
November 13 Greed
"The Rocking-Horse Winner"
"The Inherited Clock"

D.H. Lawrence
Elizabeth Bowen
December 11 Lust
"Not a Good Girl"
"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges"

Peri Klass
Nathan Englander
January 8, 2009 Envy
"Roman Fever"
"Smokers"

Edith Wharton
Tobias Wolff
February 12 Sloth
"The House with the Mezzanine"
"Shiloh"

Anton Chekhov
Bobbie Ann Mason
March 12 Gluttony
"Fat"
"Famine"

Raymond Carver
Xu Xi
April 9 TBA
May 14 TBA
June 11 TBA

9/24/08