We are touring American cities! Book selections are as follows (titles are linked to the library’s catalog for easy access):
July 10 – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Behrent
Savannah, GA
Reading Group Guide from Random House
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August 14 – City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Buffalo, NY
Reading Group Guide from Random House
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Or Ironweed by William Kennedy
Albany, NY
Reading Group Guide from Penguin
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September 11 – Tabloid City by Pete Hamill
New York, NY
Author Bio
Book review from the New York Times
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October 9 – All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Boston, MA
Reading Group Guide from Beacon Press
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November 13 – South of Broad– by Pat Conroy
Charleston, SC
Reading Group Guide from the author’s web site
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December 11 – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Seattle, WA
Reading Group Guide from the author’s web site
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January 8 – Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larsen
Galveston, TX
Reading Group Guide from Random House
Information about Isaac Cline
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February 12th – The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
Chicago, IL
Author’s web site
Info about the Chicago Fire from the Chicago Historical Society
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March 12th – A Maine Hamlet by Lura Beam
Marshfield, ME
More about the book
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April 9th – Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Monterey, CA
Cannery Row history
Center for Steinbeck Studies – with loads of links about the author and the book
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May 14th – Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Ojibwe reservation, ND
Reading Group Guide
About the author
Louise Erdrich’s blog
June 11th – Bring a poem to share
July 9th – Dakota by Kathleen Norris
Lemmon, SD
Reading Group Guide from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author’s web site
August 13th – we select titles for our 2014-2015 theme: Canada