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The library currently offers two monthly book clubs:

 

Read With Mathews Women  |  Mathews Men Readers

 

Read With Mathews Women

  

This group welcomes all women readers to join us for discussions of selected popular books on the fourth Thursday of each month at 10:00 AM.

 

2008 Selections

January 25, 2008 Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr
February 28, 2008 The Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
March 27, 2008 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
April 24, 2008 After This Alice McDermott
May 22, 2008 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
June 26, 2008 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
July 24, 2008 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century Thomas L. Friedman
August 28, 2008 The Space Between Us Thrity Umrigar
September 25, 2008 Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Jane Wallach
October 23, 2008 Wish You Well David Baldacci
November 20, 2008 Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards

• View a printable copy of this selection list.

• Learn more about these titles by viewing the Read With Mathews Women 2008 Reading List in the library catalog.

 

SIGN UP AT THE LIBRARY OR CALL 725-5747 FOR MORE INFORMATION

 

 

Mathews Men Readers Book Club

Mathews

Men                               

Readers

This group welcomes all men readers to join us for discussions of selected popular books on the first Thursday of each month at 11:00 AM.

 

August 2nd

Marley & Me

      John Grogan

September 6th

 

Nightingale’s Song

        Robert

Timberg

October 4th

War Trash

Ha-Jin

November 1st

Ordinary Heroes

Scott

Turow

December 6th

Undaunted Courage

Stephen Ambrose

January 3rd

Skeletons on the Zahara

Dean

King

February 7th

The Jesus Papers

Michael

Baigent

March 7th

The Rape of Nanking

Iris

Chang

April 4th

Mayflower

Nathaniel

Philbrick

May 2nd

Freakonomics

Steven D.

Levitt

June 6th

The Last Shot

Lynn

Schooler

July 11th

One Christmas in

Washington

David J.

Bercuson

August 1st

Queen Victoria’s

Little Wars

Bryon

Farwell

September 5th

Washing of the Spears:  The Rise & Fall of the Zulu Nation

Donald R. Morris

October 3rd

Nothing Like it in the World

Stephen Ambrose

2008 Selections

January 3, 2008

Cruel Sea

Nicholas Monsarrat

February 7, 2008

The World is Flat

Thomas L. Friedman

March 6, 2008

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

April 3, 2008

Pylon

William Faulkner

May 8, 2008

The Green Hills of Africa

Ernest Hemingway

June 5, 2008

City on Fire

Bill Minutagilo

July 3, 2008

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn & Hal Iggulden

August 7, 2008

Empire of the Sun

J.G. Ballard

September 4, 2008

Boom: Voices of the Sixties Tom Brokaw

October 2, 2008

Charlie Wilson's War

George Crile

November 6, 2008

The Appeal John Grisham
December 4, 2008 Something of Value Robert Ruark

 

View a printable copy of this selection list.

Learn more about these titles by selecting the Mathews Men Readers Current Reading List in the library catalog. 

 

SIGN UP AT THE LIBRARY OR CALL 725-5747 FOR MORE INFORMATION

 

 

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