Book Discussion Groups

Friendly Book Discussion Group

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Essential Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Overcoat and other short stories
by Nikolai Gogol

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
1984
by George Orwell

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold

The Friendly Book Discussion Group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month in the Thousand Oaks Library Conference Room. For more information, contact Sai Chandavarkar at 805-367-0571 or 805-241-5205.

History Book Discussion Group

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Truman
by David G. McCullough

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Diamonds, Gold and War: the British, the Boers,
and the making of South Africa
by Martin Meredith

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Washington’s Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer

Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Guns of August
by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Age of Jackson
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Prize: the epic quest for oil, money and power
by Daniel Yergin

The History Book Discussion Group meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month in the Thousand Oaks Library Conference Room. For more information, contact Steve Crane at 818-461-5836 or 805-241-4495.