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Read What Our Book Clubs Are Reading!
Read what our Adult Book Discussion Groups are reading this April and join a group at the Algonquin Area Public Library!
Read What Our Book Clubs are Reading!
Book Clubbers: Thursday, April 4 @ 7 - 8pm
The Violets of March by Sara Jio. In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
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Spinecrackers: Friday, April 5 @ 10 – 11 am
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Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner. Bo Mason, his wife Elsa and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune.
Classics Group: Wednesday, April 17 @ 7 pm
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. This story is of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County.
Night Readers: Thursday, April 18 @ 7 – 8 pm
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. The beginning to the sweeping series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N. and Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.
Previous Book Club Novels:
February by Lisa Moore. In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger, the world’s largest submersible oil drilling rig, capsized in a fierce storm off the coast of Newfoundland. In Moore’s accomplished novel about the risks of love, Helen O’Mara is left behind with three small children and another on the way when Cal, her husband of 10 years, dies.
Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler. A lovable loser, Barnaby Gaitlin, tries to get his life in order. He’s the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family and ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks.
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonia Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages.
Tess of D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. On her morning journey to earn money for her impoverished family, Tess’s horse has an accident, forcing her to go to some newly-rich relatives to seek assistance.
