Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group
Brown Bag Book Club
What Are You Reading Now? Book Club
Chapter-a-Day Online Book Clubs
Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group (click here for printable 2009 schedule)
The Second Tuesday Club meets at Schimelpfenig Library, 5024 Custer Rd, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information call 972.208.8000, Cathe Spencer, librarian coordinator.
2009 Schedule
January 13
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx
February 10
Franklin and Lucy
Joseph Persico
March 10
90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper
April 14
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
May 12
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos
June 9
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
July 14
The Irregulars
Jennet Conant
August 11
The Heretic’s Daughter
Kathleen Kent
September 8
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
October 13
No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin
November 10
Life Is So Good
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
For past selections of the Second Tuesday Discussion Group, click here.
Brown Bag Book Club
(click here for printable 2009 schedule)
The Brown Bag Book Club meets at Parr Library, 6200 Windhaven Parkway, from 12noon to 1:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others. Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting. No registration is required. For more information, call or email Peter Jackson, the librarian coordinator, at 972.769.4300, peterj@plano.gov.
Fall 2009 Schedule
January 22
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
February 26
A Charmed Life: Growing up in Macbeth’s Castle
Liza Campbell
March 26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
April 23
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
May 28
The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham
June 25
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Michael Gates Gill
For past selections of the Brown Bag Book Club click here.
What Are you Reading Now Book Club
2009
First Monday of the Month
Haggard Library
2501 Coit Road
1 – 2:30 pm
(click here for printable 2009 schedule)
January 5
February 2
March 2
April 6
May 4
June 1
July 6
August 3
No September meeting
October 5
November 2
December 7
Recent Recommendations
America America
Ethan Canin
Breaking Blue
Timothy Egan
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway
Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
The Condition
Jennifer Haigh
The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory
The Gathering
Anne Enright
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Nando Parrado
Netherland
Joseph O’Neill
Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson
Saving Cascadia
John J.Nance
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Writing Class
Jincy Willett
PPLS Online Book Clubs
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PPLS offers 11 online Book Clubs
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PPLS Online Book Clubs email you a portion of a book every weekday morning. We are pleased to offer the Fiction, Pre-Publication, Nonfiction, Teen, Business, Good News, Romance, Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror and Audio Book Clubs. For more information about PPLS Online Book Clubs click here. |