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Leonardtown Library

 

Lexington Park Library

 

Charlotte Hall Library

For your convenience….

  • Feel free to drop in for any book discussion at any branch.   No registration is required.    
  • Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk of the library holding the discussion.
  • The books have an extended due date, usually one week after the discussion, to allow you to review the book after the discussion.
  • If you would like to attend but have not   finished the book, please come but be aware the ending will be disclosed.
  • Enjoy the discussion ... and tell a friend!

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Leonardtown Library
3rd Thursday at 7:00 PM

January 21          
The Bible Salesman                                            Clyde Edgerton

 

February 18         
Fahrenheit 451    (Big Read)                                 Ray Bradbury

 

March 18              
Tom Sawyer                                                    Mark Twain

 

April 15 
Gilead                                                         Marilynne Roberson

May 20
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle                           David Wroblewski


June 17
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
                                                                           Mary Ann Shaffer

 

July 15                 
The Zookeeper’s Wife                                        Diane Ackerman

 

August 19            
The Time Traveler’s Wife                               Audrey Niffenegger

 

September 16     
The Year of the Flood                                       Margaret Atwood

 

October 21           
TBD One Maryland One Book                         

 

November 18
The Rape of the Lock                                       Alexander Pope

 

December 16
Little Women                                                     Louisa May Alcott


 

 

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Lexington Park Library
2nd Monday at 6:00 PM

January 11
The Forever War                                                     Dexter Filkins

 

February 8    
The Zookeeper’s Wife                                        Diane Ackerman

 

February 22
Fahrenheit 451    (Big Read)                                 Ray Bradbury

 

March 8
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer    James L. Swanson

 

April 12                 
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher                                                       Debby Applegate

 

May 17   (3rd Monday)       
Northanger Abbey                                                   Jane Austen

 

June 14   
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street                                                             William D. Cohan
                                               
July 12                  
Uncle Tom’s Cabin                                    Harriet Beecher

Stowe           

 

August 9               
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia                                           Mike Dash

 

September 13     
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival         Norman Ollestad

 

October 18 (Library closed October 11)
Nothing was the Same                               Kay Redfield Jamison

 

November 8            
The Last Child                                                                John Hart

 

December 13      
The Hummingbird’s Daughter                         Luis Alberto Urrea


 

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Charlotte Hall Library
1st Monday at 7:00 PM

anuary 4             
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency              Alexander McCall Smith

 

February 1          
People of the Book                                   Geraldine Brooks               

 

March 1
Fahrenheit 451    (Big Read)                                Ray Bradbury

 

April 5                   
Bridge of Sighs                                                       Richard Russo

 

May 3                    
The Invention Of Hugo Cabret                               Brian Selznick

 

June 7                
The Thirteenth Tale                                            Diane Setterfield

 

July 12 (2nd Monday)                    
The Lace Reader                                                       Brunonia Barry

 

August 2               
Loving Frank                                                          Nancy Horan

 

August 30 (Library closed September 6)
Interred with Their Bones                        Jennifer Lee Carrell                                                                  

 

October 4             
TBD  One Maryland One Book

 

November 1         
Homer & Langley                                                   E. L. Doctorow

 

December 6         
In the Heart of the Canyon                                   Elisabeth Hyde

 

 

 

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