Vigo County Public Library Book Club

Afternoon Book Club

2013 Selections

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

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Divergent by Veronica Roth

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Half-Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls

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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

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Evening Book Club

2013 Selections: Reading River Writers

Vigo County Public Library, in cooperation with Arts Illiana, Art Spaces and Rose Hulman’s program 2013 The Year of the River, is sponsoring a series of book discussions beginning February 2013. The theme is Reading River Writers and the books selected revolve around a river. There is something for every reader’s taste, from mystery to western, to non-fiction to young people’s books.

The Evening Book Club will meet at 7:00 p.m. at Java Haute for this year's programs.

The River by Gary Paulsen

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A popular young people’s author, continues the adventures of Brian Robeson in this story. This time Brian is asked to go into the wilderness and demonstrate the survival techniques he learned; only he will have a government psychologist studying him. Nothing goes as planned when…

North River by Pete Hamill

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Dr. James Delaney is in search of his daughter after she leaves her three-year-old son on his doorstep. Finding care for his grandson with a Sicilian woman, Delaney minsters to his patients and embraces his new family members. This read gives a richly drawn New York landscape in the Depression of the 1930s.

Ride the River by Louis L’Amour

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Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett leaves her home in Tennessee to claim an inheritance in Philadelphia. On the way back home she matches wits and shots with outlaws who try to relieve her of her fortune. Trust L’Amour to bring the West to life with a spunky Sackett!

River of Doubt by Candice Millard

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This is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s trip into the unmapped Amazon encountering repeated hardships, death and illness to change the map of South America.

River King by Alice Hoffman

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The Hadden Prep School is the location for a teacher involved with another teacher and the town policeman, a popular student is attracted to two young men, and the headmasters’ wife hangs herself in the school rose garden. The layers are slowly pealed back to reveal Hoffman’s talent as a writer.