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Do you enjoy discussing exciting books you've read with others? Do you want to share your thoughts and ideas in the give-and-take of a relaxed but structured group environment? The CHC's Literature for a Lifetime programs are for you!

   
Spring 2008 Schedule
 

Find a town near you and click on the program name to see a description and book list.

   

Bethlehem

Bethlehem Public Library

32 Main Street South

203-266-7792

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Mar 5

Call Library for time

Bloomfield

Prosser Public Library

One Tunxis Avenue

860-243-9721

Original Intentions

Apr 3, 24, May 8, 29

Call Library for time.

Cromwell

Cromwell Belden Public Library

39 West Street

860-632-3460

Billy Boyle-World War II Mystery, James R. Benn

Jan 16, 7:00 pm

with David Garnes

 

Hometown, Tracy Kidder

Feb 20, 7:00 pm

with James Ieronimo

East Hampton

East Hampton Public Library

105 Main Street

860-267-6621

A Light Hearted Look at Life

Feb 6, Mar 5, Apr 4, May 7, 7:00 pm

East Hartford

East Hartford Public Library

840 Main Street

860-289-6429

Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland

Mar 31, 7:00 pm

with Sara de Beer

 

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards

Apr 28, 7:00 pm

with Sara de Beer

East Windsor

Library Association of Warehouse Point

107 Main Street

860-623-5482

Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery, James R. Benn

Jan 16, 7:00 pm

 

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Feb. 20, Mar. 19, Apr. 16, May 21, 7:00 pm

with Marcia Hall

Fairfield

Fairfield Public Library

1080 Old Post Road

203-374-3623

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Please call library for date and time

 

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Apr 10, 7:00 pm

 

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

Apr 24, 7:00 pm

Farmington

Farmington Library

6 Monteith Drive

860-673-6791

Traveling Memories

Call library for dates and time

Forestville

Manross Memorial Library

260 Central Street

860-584-7790

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

May 8, 6:30 pm, May 13, 1:30 pm, May 14, 10:30 am

Granby

Granby Senior Center

15 North Granby Road

860-844-5275

Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk

Apr 22, 7:00pm

with Steven Blackburn

Guilford

Guilford Free Library

20 Carter Drive

203-453-8282

Back From the Brink

Feb. 6, 20, Mar. 5, 19, 7:00 pm

with Mark Schenker

Hamden

Miller Memorial Library

2901 Dixwell Avenue

203-287-2680

Unbowed, Wangari Maathai

Jan 28

Please call library for time

 

 

Atonement,  Ian McEwan

Feb

Please call library for date and time

 

Portraits of Suburbia

Apr 7, 21, May 5, 19, 7:00 pm

with Patricia D’Ascoli

 

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Apr 28, 7:00 pm

 

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

Jun 2

Please call library for time

Madison

E. C. Scranton Memorial Library

801 Boston Post Road

203-245-7365

 

Impossible Missions & Expeditions

Mar 11, 25, Apr 8, 22, 1:00 pm

with Sara de Beer

Meriden

Meriden Public Library

105 Miller Street

203-630-6349

A Reader’s Feast

Feb. 6, 20, Mar. 5, 19, 6:30 pm

with Christopher Brown

Middlebury

Middlebury Public Library

30 Crest Road

203-758-2634

Good Cooks, Great Books!

Mar 4, 18, Apr 1, 15, 7:00 pm

with Marsha Bonsavage

Middletown

Russell Library

123 Broad Street

860-347-2528, ext. 171

Connecticut Sisters in Crime: The New Heroine

Mar 12, 26, Apr 9, 23, 7:00 pm

with Carole Shmurak

Milford

Milford Public Library

57 New Haven Avenue

203-783-3307

Work and Life

Mar 13, Apr 10, May 8,  10:30 am

with Brian Trent

Morris

Morris Public Library

4 North Street

860-567-7440

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

Jan 30, 7:00 pm

with Judith Sullivan

 

Marley & Me, John Grogan

Mar 5, 3:00 pm

with Brian Trent,

New Milford

New Milford Public Library

24 Main Street

860-355-1191, ext. 201

Murder on the Menu

Mar 5, Apr 2, 30, May 28, 7:00 pm

with Patricia D’Ascoli

New Milford Senior Center

40 Main Street

860-355-6075

Once Banned, Now Classic

Feb 11, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12, 1:00 pm

with Patricia D’Ascoli

Newtown

C. H. Booth Library

25 Main Street

203-426-4533

Willa Cather

March/April

Please call library for dates and time

 

Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Please call library for date and time

North Granby

F. H. Cossitt Library

388 North Granby Road

860-653-8958 or 860-844-5275

My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

Apr 8, 7:00 pm

with Kerry Driscoll

Old Lyme

Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

2 Library Lane

860-434-1684

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Mary Morris

Mar 12, 7:00 pm

with Susan Topping

Pomfret

Pomfret Public Library

449 Pomfret Street

860-928-3475

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

February

Please call library for date and time.

 

The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch

March

Please call library for date and time.

 

The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

April

Please call library for date and time.

 

My Year of the Meats, Ruth Ozeki

May

Please call library for date and time.

Rowayton

Rowayton Library

33 Highland Avenue

203-289-6429

Scene of the Crime

Jan 30, Feb 27, Mar 26, Apr 30, 7:00 pm

with Gary Storhoff

 

Dress Your Family in Corduroy, David Sedaris

May 14, 12:00 noon

with Suzanne Eisner

Sharon

Hotchkiss Library

10 Upper Main Street

860-364-5041

Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert

Apr 1, 7:00 pm

with Mark Schenker

 

Tess of D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

May 6, 7:00 pm

with Mark Schenker

Shelton

Plumb Memorial Library

65 Wooster Street

203-924-1580

Food for Thought

Mar 5, 19, Apr 2, 16, 7:00 pm

with Lynn Faria

Southington

Southington Library & Museum

255 Main Street

860-628-0947

A Method to March Madness, C. J. Jones

Feb 16, 2:30 pm

with C. J. Jones & Tom Hazuka

 

Elected by the People

Mar 13, 27, Apr 10, 24, 7:00 pm

with Catherine Capuano

 

Teacher Man, Frank McCourt

Apr 17, 7:00pm

with Christopher Brown

 

Marley & Me, John Grogan

May 1, 7:00 pm

with Brian Trent

Wallingford

Wallingford Public Library

200 N. Main Street

203-265-6754

Four American Poets

Jan 22, Feb 5, 19, Mar 4, 2:00 pm

with David Garnes

Windsor

Windsor Public Library

323 Broad Street

860-285-1918

Stories: Voyages of Men, Women and the Sea

Feb 20, Mar 12, Apr 2, 23, 7:00 pm

with Mary Bercaw Edwards


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