WHEATON-GLEN ELLYN BRANCH
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Branch Book Groups The
Branch has three book groups: AM Lit,
PM
Lit and Non-Fiction Lit. The AM Lit Interest
Group generally meets the 1st Friday of each month at 9:30 AM.
Scheduled dates and books for discussion are listed below. Locations
are announced in Twigs.
If you have questions, email Kathy
McCullough or call her at 630/653-8971. The PM Lit Interest
Group meetings are generally scheduled for the 3rd Monday evening
of each month at 7:30 PM. Scheduled dates and books for
discussion are listed below. Locations are announced in Twigs.
If you have questions, email Kimberly
Thacker or call her at 630/665-4631. The Non-Fiction Lit
Interest Group generally
meets every other month. Scheduled dates and books for
discussion are listed below. Additional information will be announced
monthly in Twigs. If you
have questions, email Pam
Starr or call her at 630/682-4720. Following
is an integrated list of books selected for 2010-2011 for those of you who
try to keep up with more than one group.
Each group also has its own web page with its own book list. Check Twigs each month for meeting
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AM Lit |
September 10, 2010** |
Book
Selection Meeting
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Non-fiction |
September 29, 2010 |
Game Change by
Mark Halpern and Jon Heilemann |
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PM Lit |
September 20, 2011 |
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
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AM Lit |
October 1, 2010 |
A Gate at the
Stairs by Lorrie Moore
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PM Lit |
October 18, 2011 |
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin |
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PM Lit |
November 15, 2011 |
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis |
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Non-fiction |
November 22, 2010 |
The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot |
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PM Lit |
January 17, 2011 |
Call of the Wild by Jack London |
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Non-fiction |
January 26, 2011 |
Thinking
in Pictures; My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin |
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PM Lit |
February 21, 2011 |
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese |
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PM Lit |
March 21, 2011 |
The Glass Palace by Amitav
Ghosh |
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Non-fiction |
March 23, 2011 |
A
Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer,
Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Dana and Michael Preston |
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PM Lit |
April 18, 2011 |
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann |
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PM Lit |
May 16, 2011 |
The Bolter by Frances Osborne |
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PM Lit |
June 20,
2011 |
Book Choice Night & Pot Luck Dinner |
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Non-fiction |
June 22, 2011 |
Tender
at the Bone; Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl |
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Non-fiction |
August 24, 2011 |
Book
Selection Night |
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Non-fiction |
September 28, 2011 |
Remembering
Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp by
Christopher Browning |
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* Confirm
dates and locations in Twigs. |
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** 2nd
Friday due to Holiday. |
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Availability of Books The Glen
Ellyn Public Library will have the following month’s books
available. Books are due the day
following the meeting. When you check
out one of our books at the second floor information desk, please be sure to
let the librarian know which book group the book is being held for (AAUW AM,
PM or Non-fiction). The Wheaton Public
Library will arrange for an inter-library loan for any book, upon your
request but will not keep track of our book lists. To buy a book for an upcoming book group meeting, consider
patronizing The Book Store, 475 N.
Main St., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. You
can call them to check on availability (630/469-2891) or click here to send
an email to Jane Stroh, owner of The Book Store and a long-time Branch member
and Twigs sponsor. The Book
Store’s web page is www.justthebookstore.com. |
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