Join your friends and neighbors for coffee and lively,
informal, adult book discussions. There are no registration
fees. Anyone may join the group at any time. We meet every first
and third Wednesday of the month @ 1:00pm, except for the third week in
December. Come to Hamburg Library to pick up a copy of the
following titles before the dates below. The library provides
information about the authors whose books we discuss.
2007
(ONLINE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION)
4/2/08 -- Spyder Web, by Tom Grace, 451pp.
FICTION.
Former Nacy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny leads a US government hunt for a
computer program that enables industrial crimes.
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4/17/08 -- The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, 340pp.
NON-FICTION.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest
years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or
since. Egan's account rescues this iconic chapter of American
history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical
reportage
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AUTHOR VISIT (6:30pm): 4/29/08 --
Tom Grace.
Tom Grace will discuss his latest novel, "The Secret Cardinal",
in which Nolan Kilkenny returns in an adventure that races from
the grandeur of the Vatican across the vastness of Asia,
ultimately involving China, the Mafia and the conclave of
cardinals that will elect the next pope.
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5/7/08 -- Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan,
351pp.
NON-FICTION.
Meet Evelyn Ryan, mother of six sons and four daughters, who
kept the family afloat during the 'contest era' of the 1950's
and 1960's by writing jingles and entering TV, radio, newspaper
and direct-mail contests.
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AUTHOR VISIT (6:30pm): 5/7/08 --
Bob Tarte, author of "Enslaved by Ducks"
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SOME GENERIC QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT ANY
BOOK