Fireside Readers Book Discussion Group
Staff Contact:
Maureen Lerch
The Fireside Readers Book Discussion Group was formed in October 2005. Discussions are open to members of the area community, as well as college students, faculty and staff. Over the past few years we have focused on discussing memoirs, biographies, and other works of nonfiction. Several members of the group have been with us since the beginning, and others join us when we’re reading a book of personal interest.
The group traditionally meets on the first Monday of the month, taking time off in the summer and over the winter holidays. We meet from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the community room next to the library. At each meeting light refreshments are served.
Please join us for an upcoming meeting, even if you have not yet read or completely the month’s selection. New members and guests are always welcome!
Current Selections:
Monday, August 3, 2009:
We will read two related books:
Monday, September 14, 2009:
Monday, October 5, 2009:
Monday, November 2, 2009:
Monday, December 7, 2009:
Previous Selections:
- Diane Ackerman. The Zookeeper’s Wife.
- Baker, Russell. Growing up.
- Beah, Ishmael. A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier.
- Beard, Jo Ann. The boys of my youth.
- Bragg, Rick. All over but the shoutin'.
- Bryson, Bill. A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
- Conway, Jill K. The road from Coorain.
- Egan, Timothy. The Worst hard time: The untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl.
- Fuller, Alexandra. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood.
- Gardner, Chris. The pursuit of happyness.
- Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln.
- Greenspan, Alan. The age of turbulence : adventures in a new world.
- Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking like the enemy: My story of imprisonment in Japanese-American internment camps.
- Hunt, Irmgard A. On Hitler’s mountain: Overcoming the legacy of a Nazi childhood.
- Johanyak, Debra. Behind the veil: an American woman's memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis.
- Kimmel, Haven. A Girl named Zippy: Growing up small in Moorland, Indiana.
- Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, vegetable, miracle: A year in food life.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts.
- Krakauer, Jon. Into the wild.
- Kurson, Robert. Shadow divers: The true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II.
- Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America.
- Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck.
- Mah, Adeline Yen. Falling leaves: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter.
- McCourt, Frank. Teacher man: A memoir.
- McCullough, David G. The Johnstown flood.
- Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of Tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations -- one school at a time.
- Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books.
- Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance.
- Shah, Saira. The Storyteller’s daughter.
- Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird: A portrait of Harper Lee.
- Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad.
- Toobin, Jeffrey. The nine : inside the secret world of the Supreme Court.
- Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle: a memoir.
- Winchester, Simon. The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
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