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Join
us to talk about books at the "Third Saturdays" Club-PPL's
series of Saturday afternoon book discussions. The
casual monthly gatherings feature a brief talk by a guest, or a
member of the group, followed by an engaging conversation about
the book. Meetings are held in the Main Library Room 316 at 2 pm.
COMING
UP
We will skip August but
join us on September 20 for Richard Russo's Bridge
of Sighs.
COMING
UP
October 18:The road washes out in Spring by Baron Wormser.
November 15: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz.
January 17: Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman / Thomas
Hardy.
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OUR EMAIL LIST! If you would like to receive
email updates and reminders for the Third Saturdays Club, send
your email address to reference@portland.lib.me.us
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Previous
Discussions:
July 19: Brother,
I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat
June 21: Out
Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
May 17: The
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
April 19: Omnivore's
Dilemma by Michael Pollan
March 15: Cellophane by Marie Arana
February 16: Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
January 19:
Flight by Sherman Alexie
2007
November 17: Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
October 20: What is the What by Dave Eggers
September 15: Slaughterhouse
Five by Kurt Vonnegut
July 21: Case
Histories-Kate Atkinson
June 16: Garner-Kirstin
Allio
May 19: Purple
Hibiscus-Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
April 21: American
Theocracy-Kenneth Phillips
March:The Dream
of Scipio by Iain Pears
February 17:
Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie
January 20: David
Copperfield-Charles Dickens
2006
November: Play
it as it Lays-Joan Didion
October: Arthur
and George-Julian Barnes
September: Mountains
beyond Mountains-Tracy Kidder
July:
The
Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
June:
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
May: Small Island by Andrea Levy
April: Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
March: The
March
by E. L. Doctorow
February: The
Sea
by John Banville
January: Runaway:
Stories by Alice Munro
2005
December: Pride and
Prejudice by Jane Austen
November: Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter
October:
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
September: Known
World
by Edward P. Jones
June:
Spartina by John Casey
May: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
April: Devil in the White City by
Erik Larson
March: The
Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
February: John Henry Days by Colson
Whitehead
January: Me
Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
2004
November: The
Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
October:
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
September: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar
Nafisi
August: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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