Programs and Events ~ Adult Book Discussion

The Springvale Library Book Discussion Group meets on the first Thursday of each month.  Multiple copies of the current book are available at the desk or participants may purchase a copy through the Library.  The group meets from 12 to 1:30 p.m. and participants are invited to take part in a potluck lunch if they would like.

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No discussion in July

August's Book
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

September's Book
 Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

Previously Discussed Books

2010
        Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
        A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
       Simple Genius by David Baldacci
       The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls
       Nineteen Minutes by Jody Picoult
       One More Time: a memoir by Carol Burnett

2009

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Princess: A true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson
• Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
• Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• The Soloist by Steve Lopez
• Nonfiction set in an African country
  

2008

• In The Bleak Midwinter by Maine author Julia Spencer-Fleming
• Becoming Auma by Melinda Geaumont
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
• Billy Boy, The Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine by Jean Mary Flahive

2007

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Pomegranate Soup by Marcha Mehran
• Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman
• We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickenson Rich
• Assorted Mysteries
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• The Miracles of Santo Fico by D.L. Smith
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search Through Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

2006

• Over the Moat: Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam by James Sullivan
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• A Naturalist Buys A Farm by Edwin Way Teale
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine & Traditional Healing by Lori Alvord
• The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

2005

• Without Reservations: the travels of an independent woman by Alice Steinbach
• Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• His Excellency George Washington by Joseph Ellis
• Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
• The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter
• Dispatches From Maine by John Gould

2004

• Nevada Barr Mysteries
• Life Is So Good by George Dawson
• Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
• Nickel and Dimed: On [Not] Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
• The Hills At Home by Nancy Clark
• Secret Father by James Carrol
• Papa Martel by Gerard Robichaud
• At Seventy: A Journal by May Sarton

2003

• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Spy Wore Red by Aline, Countess of Romanones
• Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2002

• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattereh Farman Farmaian
• Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Lighthouse Keeper by James Michael Pratt
• Beyond the Sky & the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
• A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Arundel by Kenneth Roberts

2001

• Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman Jr.
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult