BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Groups meet monthly to read and discuss literature of common interest. New members are always welcome!
ACCOKEEK BRANCH
Wednesday, March 10 7:30 pm Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Wednesday, April 14 7:30 pm Richard Russo’s Bridge of Sighs
BELTSVILLE BRANCH
Monday, March 8 7 pm Robert Harris’ Imperium
Tuesday, March 16 2 pm Paul Krugman’s The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Monday, April 12 7 pm Alexander McCall Smith’s The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4)
Tuesday, April 20 2 pm Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea
BOWIE BRANCH
Wednesday, March 10 7:15 pm Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
Wednesday, April 14 7:15 pm James Patterson’s Run for Your Life
Great Books
Tuesday, March 9 7:15 pm Immanuel Kant’s First Principles of Morals
Tuesday, April 13 7:15 pm Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart
HYATTSVILLE BRANCH
Saturday, March 30 3 pm James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain
Saturday, April 17 3 pm Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
Spanish Literature
Monday, March 29 7:30 pm Florencia Bonelli’s Marlene
Monday, April 26 7:30 pm Juan José García Millás’ Dos Mujeres en Praga
LARGO-KETTERING BRANCH
Tuesday, March 16 7 pm Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
Tuesday, April 20 7 pm Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
LAUREL BRANCH
Tuesday, March 23 7:30 pm Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Tuesday, April 27 7:30 pm William P. Young’s The Shack
NEW CARROLLTON BRANCH
Thursday, March 11 10 am Jon Meacham's American Lion
Thursday, April 8 10 am David Ignatius' Body of Lies
Black Literature
Saturday, March 13 10 am Terry McMillan’s The Interruption of Everything
Saturday, April 10 10 am Underwood, Due & Barnes’ In the Night of the Heat
OXON HILL BRANCH
Tuesday, Tuesday, March 9 2 pm David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife
Tuesday, April 13 2 pm Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors
Black Literature
Tuesday, March 23 7 pmBarbara Neely’s Blanche Cleans Up
Tuesday, April 27 7 pmHenry Louis Gates’ Colored People
SPAULDINGS BRANCH
Wednesday, March 10 2 pm Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Wednesday, April 14 2 pm Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Black Literature
Tuesday, March 23 7 pm Pamela Samuels-Young’s Every Reasonable Doubt
Tuesday, April 27 7 pm Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Porch Stories
SURRATTS-CLINTON BRANCH
Wednesday, March 17 7:30 pm Bart D. Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus
Wednesday, April 21 7:30 pm Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book
Afternoon Tea
Tuesday, March 9 2:30 pm Steve Lopez’s The Soloist
Tuesday, April 13 2:30 pm Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem
Black Literature
Tuesday, March 16 6:30 pm Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Beautiful Struggle
Tuesday, April 20 6:30 pm Patricia Haley’s Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
UPPER MARLBORO BRANCH
True Crime Brown Bag Lunch
Mondays, March 15 & April 19 Noon Call branch for details. Bring lunch, beverage provided.
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