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Adult Winter Reading Club - December 1 to February 29
Join the Winter Reading Club and earn video coupons and other prizes for every five books you read.
Our theme is Reader Favorites: Recommendations from Past Reading Clubs. See a complete list of suggestions or printable lists of:
Fiction Favorites * Mystery Favorites * Thriller Favorites * Science Fiction & Fantasy Favorites * Nonfiction Favorites
Join us for poetry discussions with literary critic Isabel Soffer. No advance reading is required.
Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.
Benjamin Goluboff leads a discussion of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
Do you love a good murder? Then join the newest book club at the Northbrook Public Library. We will meet in the evening to discuss mysteries and other award-winning crime fiction novels. So dust off your magnifying glass and come to the next meeting of Suspicious Minds!
Still Life by Louise Penny
When a beloved school teacher is found killed by a bow and arrow during hunting season, Inspector Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of this suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal.
Kathleen Anne Fleming will discuss Point of View.
Join our provocative discussions of literary classics using materials from the Great Books Foundation. Lynn Eisenberg is the moderator. Readings are from Even Deadlier. Participants may buy the book from the Foundation’s website at www.greatbooks.org or call 1-800-222-5870.
The February selection is "A Woman of Fifty" by Somerset Maugham.
Participants in the Adult Winter Reading Club can pick up their gift book starting today until February 29 in Reader Services. You must have read at least 5 books to qualify for a gift.
Today is the last day to turn in your booklets to enter the raffle and to pick up your gift book in Reader Services.
A 5-year-old boy has spent his entire life in a room where his mother is being held captive by a man who kidnapped her, but one day she tells her son it’s time to escape.
Isabel Soffer leads a discussion of Room by Emma Donoghue.
Join us for poetry discussions with literary critic Isabel Soffer. No advance reading is required.
The Illinois State Poetry Society has a chapter that meets at the library. New members are welcome. Bring 10-12 copies of two of your poems.
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 2:00pm
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 2:00pm
Current Art Exhibit:
Paintings by Shalisha Erenberg
