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LML's Book Club
Come join us for our next meeting
on Wednesday, February 1st @ 10:30am
in the LMT Municipal building "ballroom"
where we'll discuss Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran.
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Lower Macungie Library's Book Club meets every first Wednesday of each month from 10:30am to 12:00pm in the Lower Macungie Township Municipal building's "ballroom". Come join us for great discussion and light refreshments. Please sign up at the library circulation desk to reserve your spot.
2012 Book Club schedule:
February 1st: Cleopatrs's Daughter by Michelle Moran
March 7th : The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
April 4th: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
May 2nd: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
NEW!!! Read About It! Book Club Program
Lower Macungie Library received a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council for their Read About It! Program. The program funds the cost of the books used in the book discussions for four months from February through May 2012 and will be led by a professional facilitator, Dr. Carolyn Segal, Professor of English at Cedar Crest College.
The book club will meet on the third Tuesday of the month beginning on February 21, 2012 from 10:00am to 12:00pm and will be held at the Lower Macungie Township “ballroom”. Light refreshments will be served. The genre is called American Life Stories; contemporary memoirs written by authors who represent the diversity of the American experience. The first book to be discussed (February 21st meeting) is titled Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride.
For more information or to sign up for this special book club, please contact the library at 610-966-6864 or stop by the Circulation Desk.
Schedule of Book Discussions for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant Read About It! Program: American Life Stories:
February 21, 2012: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
March 20, 2012: When I was Puerto Rican : A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
April 17, 2012: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian In America by Firoozeh Dumas
May 15, 2012: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
