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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 419 at 2 pm.
COMING
UP
 February
20: Telex
from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
If all of our copies of a
book are checked out, consider requesting a copy through
MaineCat. There is
no charge, and it usually takes about a week for the book to
arrive!
JOIN
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
and we will add you to our mailing list.
Previous
Discussions:
January
16: Love
and Summer by William
Trevor
November 21: Contentment Cove by Miriam
Colwell
October: Breakfast with Buddha
September: Dante Club
July 18: The white tiger
June: Elegance of the Hedgehog
April 18: Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
March 21:
Where I'm calling from : new and selected stories by Raymond
Carver.
February
21:
Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
January 17: Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman / Thomas
Hardy.
2008
November 15:
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz.
October 18:The road washes out in Spring by Baron Wormser.
September 20:
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
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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