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Morgan
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Book Discussion Group
January - July 2009 |
Last
Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm |
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Stop by the Information desk to pick up a copy
All
adults and teens welcome
Read the book and join us in the meeting room |
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Not A Genuine Black Man
by Brian Copeland
Thursday
January 29, 2009
7:30 p.m.
A successful comedian describes his experiences growing up African American in the white suburbs of San Leandro, California, recalling his difficult childhood in a racist enclave, in a thought-provoking and funny memoir based on the author's one-man show. |
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I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
Thursday
February 26,2009
7:30 p.m.
| Meet Ed Kennedy, underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . . Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary), until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission? Winner of the 2003 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in Australia, I Am the Messenger is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists, and love. |
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The Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Thursday
March 26, 2009
7:30 p.m.
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| Journeying back in time to the year 1320, twenty-first-century Oxford woman Kivrin arrives in the past during the outbreak of a deadly epidemic. |
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
Thursday
April 30, 2009
7:30 p.m.
| In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child. |
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Thursday
May 28, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon. |
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The Language of Bees
by Laurie R. King
Thursday
June 25th, 2009
7:30 p.m.
From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the Café Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young woman’s past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she’s ever faced—a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.
Laurie King will be speaking at the Morgan Hill Library on July 9th at 7:00 PM. |
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Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
by Daniel Wallace
Thursday July 30th, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Edward Bloom is dying, and his son William does not truly know him, until William arrives at Edward's deathbed, but since Edward shows no interest in talking to him, William makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions. |
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