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PageTurners Book Discussion Groups
All book discussion groups welcome new participants! Just read the
book and join the conversation. Local participants choose the books to be
discussed for the year. For more information, please contact your local
library. PageTurners Kits contain multiple copies of a book.
Some kits also contain book reviews, author information, talking books and large
print editions. Contact your local library to
check out a Book Discussion Kit for your group. |
Book Lists and Meeting Schedules
Aberdeen - Amanda Park -
Centralia - Chehalis -
Elma - Hoodsport - Hoquiam - Lacey - McCleary -
Montesano - Mountain View (Randle) -
Naselle - North Mason
(Belfair) - Oakville - Ocean Park - Olympia - Raymond -
Salkum - Shelton - Tenino
- Tumwater - Westport -
Winlock - Yelm
ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (WEDNESDAY GROUP)
2nd Wednesday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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11/18/2009 |
The Vendetta Defense |
Lisa Scottoline |
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12/9/2009 |
Join other community members in reading and discussing some of their favorite poetry. |
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1/13/2010 |
Death Comes For The Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
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2/10/2010 |
The Golden Spruce |
John Vaillant |
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3/10/2010 |
Dreams of My Russian Summers |
Andrei Makine |
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4/14/2010 |
The Housekeeper and The Professor |
Yoko Ogawa |
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5/12/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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6/9/2010 |
Join other community members in selecting titles for the next series, beginning September 2010. Everyone is invited to attend. |
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ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (SATURDAY GROUP)
3rd Saturday / month - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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11/21/2009 |
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
Charles C. Mann |
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12/19/2009 |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
Sherman Alexie |
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1/16/2010 |
My Name is Asher Lev |
Chaim Potok |
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2/20/2010 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
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3/20/2010 |
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation |
Jon Meacham |
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4/17/2010 |
To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
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5/15/2010 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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6/19/2010 |
Join others in selecting titles for the next series of discussions, beginning September 2010. Everyone is invited to attend. |
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ABERDEEN RAINY DAY READING REVIEWS
Friday Morning (January and February only) / 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Rainy Day Reading Reviews is sponsored by the Friends of the Aberdeen Library.
A reviewer talks about the selected title, then discussion follows.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
AMANDA PARK PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
CENTRALIA PAGETURNERS
2nd Monday / month - 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
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11/9/2009 |
October Sky |
Homer Hickam |
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12/14/2009 |
Falling Man |
Don Delillo |
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1/11/2010 |
People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
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2/8/2010 |
The Measure of a Man |
Sidney Poitier |
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3/8/2010 |
A Town Like Alice |
Nevil Shute |
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4/12/2010 |
Away |
Amy Bloom |
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5/10/2010 |
Twenty Wishes |
Debbie Macomber |
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6/14/2010 |
Select titles for next season |
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7/12/2010 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
Mark Haddon |
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8/9/2010 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
CHEHALIS PAGETURNERS
1st Thursday / month - 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
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12/3/2009 |
Broken for You |
Stephanie Kallos |
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1/7/2010 |
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be |
Farley Mowat |
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2/4/2010 |
Brick Lane |
Monica Ali |
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3/4/2010 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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4/1/2010 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
Mark Haddon |
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5/6/2010 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
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6/3/2010 |
Garden Spells |
Sarah Addison Allen |
ELMA PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 7 - 8:30 p.m.
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11/17/2009 |
When We Were Orphans |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
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12/15/2009 |
Walk in the Woods |
Bill Bryson |
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1/19/2010 |
The Monsters of Templeton |
Lauren Groff |
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2/16/2010 |
Water for Elephants: A Novel |
Sara Gruen |
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3/16/2010 |
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression |
Mildred Armstrong Kalish |
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4/20/2010 |
The Thirteenth Tale |
Diane Setterfield |
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5/18/2010 |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
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6/15/2010 |
Join in choosing the books for the next season of PageTurners book dicussions. |
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HOODSPORT PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 1:00 p.m.
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12/1/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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1/5/2010 |
The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
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2/2/2010 |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennett |
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3/2/2010 |
The White Tiger: A Novel |
Aravind Adiga |
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4/6/2010 |
The Industry of Souls |
Martin Booth |
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5/4/2010 |
Still Alice |
Lisa Genova |
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6/1/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer |
HOQUIAM PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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12/1/2009 |
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
David Sedaris |
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1/5/2010 |
A Girl Named Zippy |
Haven Kimmel |
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2/2/2010 |
The Reader |
Bernhard Schlink |
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3/2/2010 |
The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
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4/6/2010 |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Didion |
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5/4/2010 |
Nothing Like it in the World |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
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6/1/2010 |
Join local community members in choosing books for the next series of discussions. |
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LACEY PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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11/17/2009 |
Garden Spells |
Sarah Addison Allen |
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12/15/2009 |
One Thousand White Women |
Jim Fergus |
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1/19/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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2/16/2010 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
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3/16/2010 |
Broken for You |
Stephanie Kallos |
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4/20/2010 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Betty Smith |
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5/18/2010 |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
Michael Chabon |
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6/15/2010 |
Help choose the titles for the next season of book discussions |
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LACEY PAGETURNERS @ THE FIRS
Location: The Firs, 426 Lilly Rd.
NE, Olympia.
2nd Tuesday / month - 10:00 - 11:30 a.m
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11/10/2009 |
City of Thieves |
David Benioff |
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12/8/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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1/12/2010 |
Away |
Amy Bloom |
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2/9/2010 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
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3/9/2010 |
People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
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4/13/2010 |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennett |
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5/11/2010 |
White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
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6/8/2010 |
Falling Man |
Don DeLillo |
LACEY SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Lacey Senior Center, 6757 Pacific Ave. SE, Lacey
3rd Wednesday / month - 9:30 - 11:00 a.m
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11/18/2009 |
Freakonomics |
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
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12/16/2009 |
The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
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1/20/2010 |
Mayflower |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
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2/17/2010 |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
Michael Chabon |
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3/17/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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4/21/2010 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
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5/19/2010 |
Peace Like a River |
Leif Enger |
McCLEARY PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
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11/19/2009 |
The Children of Men |
P.D. James |
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12/17/2009 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
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1/21/2010 |
The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
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2/18/2010 |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
Barbara Kingsolver |
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3/18/2010 |
Bridge of Sighs |
Richard Russo |
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4/15/2010 |
The Last Child |
John Hart |
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5/20/2010 |
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
David Wroblewski |
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6/17/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
MONTESANO PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
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11/19/2009 |
The Piano Tuner |
Daniel Mason |
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1/28/2010 |
Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Betty Smith |
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2/25/2010 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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3/25/2010 |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
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4/22/2010 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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5/27/2010 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
MOUNTAIN VIEW (RANDLE) PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
NASELLE PAGETURNERS
1st Saturday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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12/5/2009 |
Dead Souls |
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol |
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1/9/2010 |
Divisadero |
Michael Ondaatje |
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2/6/2010 |
City of Thieves |
David Benioff |
NORTH MASON PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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11/19/2009 |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
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12/17/2009 |
Read a biography of your choice to share with the group. |
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1/21/2010 |
A Clearing in the Wild |
Jane Kirkpatrick |
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2/18/2010 |
Cane River |
Lalita Tademy |
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3/18/2010 |
The Glass Castle: a Memoir |
Jeannette Walls |
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4/15/2010 |
A Thread of Grace: a Novel |
Mary Doria Russell |
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5/20/2010 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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6/17/2010 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
OAKVILLE PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Starting Jan. 2010 - 2nd Thursday / month - 1:00 - 3:15
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11/12/2009 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
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12/10/2009 |
Atonement: a novel |
Ian McEwan |
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1/14/2010 |
Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
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2/11/2010 |
Birds of Prey |
J. A. Jance |
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3/11/2010 |
Bold Spirit |
Linda Hunt |
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4/8/2010 |
The Broken Shore |
Peter Temple |
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5/13/2010 |
Away |
Amy Bloom |
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6/10/2010 |
Empire Falls |
Richard Russo |
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7/8/2010 |
The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
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8/12/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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9/9/2010 |
The Mermaid Chair |
Sue Monk Kidd |
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11/11/2010 |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennett |
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12/9/2010 |
Professor and the Madman |
Simon Winchester |
OCEAN PARK PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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12/1/2009 |
The Hearts of Horses |
Molly Gloss |
OLYMPIA PAGETURNERS
3rd Friday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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11/13/2009 |
Headlong |
Michael Frayn |
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12/18/2009 |
When I Forgot |
Elina Hirvonen |
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1/15/2010 |
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird |
Bruce Barcott |
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2/19/2010 |
The Wasted Vigil |
Nadeem Aslam |
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3/19/2010 |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
Muriel Barbery |
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4/16/2010 |
Censoring an Iranian Love Story |
Shahriyar Mandanipur |
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5/21/2010 |
My Treacherous Journey: Guided by the Wisdom of a Korean Mother |
Kyung Soon Yun |
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6/18/2010 |
Select books for next year |
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OLYMPIA SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Olympia
Senior Center, 222 Columbia St. NW Olympia.
2rd Tuesday / month - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
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11/10/2009 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
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12/8/2009 |
The World Is Flat |
Thomas L. Friedman |
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1/12/2010 |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Didion |
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2/9/2010 |
The Professor and the Madman |
Simon Winchester |
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3/9/2010 |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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4/13/2010 |
Passage to Junea: A Sea and Its Meanings |
Jonathan Raban |
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5/11/2010 |
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography |
Sidney Poitier |
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6/8/2010 |
True History of the Kelly Gang |
Peter Carey |
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7/13/2010 |
The selection of books for 2011. |
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7/13/2010 |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennett |
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8/10/2010 |
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
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9/14/2010 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
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10/12/2010 |
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression |
Mildred Armstrong Kalish |
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11/9/2010 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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12/14/2010 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
RAYMOND PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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11/12/2009 |
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |
Malcolm Gladwell |
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12/10/2009 |
Join in a lively discussion of your favorite Western |
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1/14/2010 |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
Timothy Egan |
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2/11/2010 |
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner |
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3/11/2010 |
The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
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4/8/2010 |
Under the Volcano |
Malcolm Lowry |
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5/13/2010 |
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey |
Jill Bolte Taylor |
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6/10/2010 |
A Clearing in the Wild |
Jane Kirkpatrick |
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7/8/2010 |
Join in a lively discussion as the group chooses next year's disucssion books |
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SALKUM PAGETURNERS
2nd Wednesday / month - 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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11/18/2009 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
This meeting is a week later than normal because of Veterans Day. |
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12/9/2009 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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1/13/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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2/10/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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3/10/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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4/14/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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5/12/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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6/9/2010 |
Book titles chosen monthly. |
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SHELTON PAGETURNERS
Normally the first Thursday / month - 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
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12/3/2009 |
Assassination Vacation |
Sarah Vowell |
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12/3/2009 |
Discuss selections for next year at this final meeting of 2009. |
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TENINO PAGETURNERS
3rd Wednesday / month - 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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11/18/2009 |
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood |
Marie Arana |
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12/16/2009 |
Inés of My Soul |
Isabel Allende |
TUMWATER PAGETURNERS
1st Wednesday / month - 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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12/2/2009 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
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1/6/2010 |
A Widow for One Year |
John Irving |
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2/3/2010 |
The Forest Lover |
Susan Vreeland |
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3/3/2010 |
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories |
Carson McCullers |
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4/7/2010 |
People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
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5/5/2010 |
City of Thieves |
David Benioff |
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6/2/2010 |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
WESTPORT MORNING READERS GROUP
3rd Friday / month - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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11/20/2009 |
A River Runs Through It, and other stories |
Norman Maclean |
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12/18/2009 |
Caramelo: a novel |
Sandra Cisneros |
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1/15/2010 |
The Amateur Marriage: A Novel |
Anne Tyler |
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2/19/2010 |
A Room of One's Own |
Virginia Wolfe |
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3/19/2010 |
Birds Without Wings |
Louis de Bernières |
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4/16/2010 |
Out Stealing Horses |
Per Petterson |
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5/21/2010 |
Theatre of Fish: travels through Newfoundland and Labrador |
John Gimlette |
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6/18/2010 |
Help select titles for next season. |
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WESTPORT EVENING READERS GROUP
2nd Wednesday / month - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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11/11/2009 |
The Fountainhead |
Ayn Rand |
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12/9/2009 |
A Holiday gathering. Location to be announced. |
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1/13/2010 |
Garden Spells |
Sarah Addison Allen |
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2/10/2010 |
Dog Years: a memoir |
Mark Doty |
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3/10/2010 |
The Shack |
William P. Young |
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4/14/2010 |
Nineteen Minutes |
Jodi Picoult |
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5/12/2010 |
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
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6/9/2010 |
Studs Terkel's Working: a graphic adaptation |
Harvey Pekar |
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9/8/2010 |
Select books for 2011. Bring your suggestions and help select the titles for next year's reading list. |
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10/13/2010 |
Away: a novel |
Amy Bloom |
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11/10/2010 |
The Forgotten Garden: a novel |
Kate Morton |
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12/8/2010 |
Join the group for a Holiday Gathering. Time and place will be announced. |
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WINLOCK PAGETURNERS
1st Friday / month - 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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12/4/2009 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a Novel |
Lisa See |
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1/8/2010 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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2/5/2010 |
Runaway: Stories |
Alice Munro |
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3/5/2010 |
In the Country of Men |
Hisham Matar |
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4/2/2010 |
Garden Spells |
Sarah Addison Allen |
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5/7/2010 |
Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II |
Robert Kurson |
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6/4/2010 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
YELM PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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11/10/2009 |
Little Heathens |
Mildred A. Kalish |
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12/8/2009 |
The Eyre Affair |
Jasper Fforde |
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1/12/2010 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
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2/9/2010 |
The Dirty Girls Social Club |
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez |
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3/9/2010 |
Suite Française |
Irène Némirovsky |
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4/13/2010 |
The Forest Lover |
Susan Vreeland |
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5/11/2010 |
The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
Kim Edwards |
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6/8/2010 |
October Sky |
Homer H. Hickam |
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