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03/07/08 Providence Public Library Announces Two New Book Clubs Beginning March 27 | event info

Providence Public Library announces the start of two new book clubs to be held at the Central Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence. Both the Thursday Night Book Club for the (Half) Serious Reader and the Eco-Heroes Fiction Book Club will be held from March through May (complete details below). Readers can sign up for the Library’s monthly Central Book Clubs Newsletter and see complete information, including all upcoming dates and books to be discussed, book descriptions, and author backgrounds by going to www.provlib.org and clicking on the Book Lovers link. For more information on Central Library book clubs, discussions, and programs, contact Lisa Miller at 455-8057.

Central Book Club Spring Schedules (March – May)

Thursday Night Book Club for the (Half) Serious Reader

Join us for lively discussions of new fiction on Thursday evenings at 6:30 pm. To reserve your book and register, please call 455-8022 or email kbullard@provlib.org.

Thursday, March 27
Last Night at the Lobster (145 pgs) by Steward O’Nan

Stewart O’Nan has been called “the bard of the working class” and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction.

Thursday, April 24
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

Thursday, May 29
The Expeditions by Karl Iagnemma

From Karl Iagnemma, recipient of the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, comes a fierce and gorgeous story of an estranged father and son’s unlikely journey though the wilderness of nineteenth-century America.

Eco-Heroes: Fiction Book Club

Make this book club a must on Sunday this spring! Meetings will be from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. To reserve your book and register, email daustin@provlib.org (preferred) or by call 455-8060.

Sunday, March 30
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move—and peaceful coexistence be damned!

Sunday, April 27
The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel by John Nichols

Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. So began —though few knew it at the time—the Milagro beanfield war.

Sunday, May 18
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut’s first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. It is a chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut–wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

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