Catch-All Book Group
Monday * June 31st 8 4 pm
For post college/pre-baby coed group
We’re kicking off our new book group with The Book of Other People, a collection of short story character sketches by 23 fabulous and funny authors like Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, and George Saunders. The writers were given the instruction to “make somebody up,” and what resulted is a hodgepodge collection of liars, monsters, puppies, and average (or not-so-average) joes, edited by Zadie Smith.

Kids & Companions
Friday * July 18th * 7:30 pm
Chapter book readers ages 8-11 are welcome, along with the adult of his or her choice.
Gods of Manhattan, our book for July, takes on mythology and New York, but in a completely new, interesting, and different way. The gods here are the gods of history: Peter Styuvesant, Babe Ruth, Hiram Greenbaum and the native Americans who once populated what is now the Big Apple. Rory is the only one who can see their world running parallel to ours, and only he can help the forces of good outweigh the growing power of very bad that threatens not just New York City, but civilization as we know it.

All-New Highschool Girls Book Group
Wednesday * July 23rd * 6:30 pm
If you are entering 9th, 10th or 11th grade this year and are looking for a smart, hip group in which you can read and discuss deep books with a little more mature “bite” to them, then you’ll love our new book group. We’re kicking it off with the book Great and Terrible Beauty, by the wonderful Libba Bray.

Guys Who Read
Thursday * July 17th * 7:00 pm
We guys have tackled some big issues in the past, but this is the biggest. We will discuss if there is indeed a God as we read Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. We will also be picking books for future meetings, so comes with titles.

Middle School Guys
Friday * July 25th * 4:30 pm
The Black Book of Secrets, by F.E. Higgins, opens with Ludlow Fitch about to get his teeth pulled by a nasty tooth merchant. Ludlow escapes to a remote village where he hides out and starts a new life…but what he doesn’t know is that his dark past is coming, and his terrible secrets will affect everyone around him. I picked this book because the opening scene grabbed me in a way that few openings have, and I can’t wait to read the rest!

Page Turners
Sunday * July 20th * 4:30 pm
Girls in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade are welcome.
Glam Girls has been reinvented and reborn as the brand-new Page Turners: a group of adventurous readers who are more interested in mysteries than makeup! To start things off, we’re reading the funtastic Kiki Strike, by Kirsten Miller, the story of a Disgruntled Girl Scout and a secret city beneath Manhattan. And oh yeah—a totally kickin’ gang of girl spies!!

The Boys Adventure Group
Thursday * July 31st * 4pm
Our wonderful rep from Harper Collins, Eric, delivered some books to our doorstep last week—especially for the Adventure Boys. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner is the book and it is free to all Boys in our group! Come by and pick up your copy! In August we will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar.

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