Events

Evening Book Discussion

Meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the selected book are available at the checkout desk. Call (501)663-5457 for more details. Registration is not required.

October Book Selection:

North Toward Home
by Willie Morris

Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of Harper's magazine. North Toward Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, "a touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man's pilgrimage."
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Upcoming Books:

• November 2: The Book of Bright Ideas
• December 7: Out Stealing Horses
• January 4: The Last Girls

Lunchtime Book Group

Meetings are held the third Wednesday of the month at 11:30 a.m. Copies of the selected book are available at the checkout desk. Bring your lunch; drinks are provided. Call (501)663-5457 for more details. Registration is not required.

September Book Selection:

Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan

It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South.
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Upcoming Books:

• October 20: East of the Sun, by Julia Gregson
• November 17: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
• December 15: TBA

Book of the Month for Adults

Book of the Month for Adults will meet on the second Tuesday of every month from 12-1 p.m. in the East Room on the first floor of the Main Library. Bring your lunch. Drinks and cookies provided.

September Book Selection:

You Shall Know Our Velocity!
by Dave Eggers

After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money, in a rowdy debut novel from the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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Upcoming Books:

• October 12: TBA
• November 9: TBA
• December 14: TBA

Maumelle's Second Monday Book Club

Meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Call (501) 851-2551 for more details. Registration is not required.

September Book Selection

The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived.
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Upcoming Books:

• October 11: TBA
• November 8: TBA
• December 13: TBA

Mystery Lovers Book Club

Meetings are held on the last Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. Members read whatever they choose by a particular author and share with the group. Call (501) 851-2551 for more details. Registration is not required.

Adult Book Chat

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month at 12:30 pm. and will feature a book of the month. The book will be available for checkout at the circulation desk in advance. Bring you brown bag lunch and join us for a lively discussion.

Book Chats

Meetings are held on the third Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m. Members read whatever they choose and share with the group. Call (501) 457-5038 for more details. Registration is not required, but appreciated.

Book Club Divas

Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7:00 p.m. Copies of the selected book are available at the Circulation Desk

September Book Selection

Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout

At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Upcoming Book Schedule:

• October 26: Shanghai Girls
• November 23: A Thousand Splendid Suns
• December 28: TBA

Book Chats

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month at 2 p.m. Members read whatever they choose and share with the group. Call (501) 835-7756 for more information.

The Page Turners

Meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at 10:30 a.m. Members read a single book for discussion at the meeting. Call (501) 835-7756 for more information.

Book Lover's Book Club

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month, September through April, at 11:00 a.m. Members will read a single book for discussion at the meeting. Call (501) 228-0129 for more details. Registration is not required, but appreciated.

September Book Selection

Red Azalea
by Anchee Min

A woman who grew up in China during its Cultural Revolution describes the grueling physical labor she endured on Red Fire Farm, her forced segregation from men, her sexual relationship with her platoon leader, and her introduction to acting.
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Upcoming Book Schedule

• October 19: TBA
• November 16: TBA
• January 21: TBA

Evening Book Club

Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month (no meeting in December) at 7:00 p.m. Members will read a single book for discussion at the meeting. Call (501) 821-3060 for more details. Registration is not required, but appreciated.

September Book Selection

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The former editor-in-chief of French Elle magazine describes the rare stroke to the brain stem he suffered at the age of forty-four that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body.
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Upcoming Book Schedule

• October 26: The Coral Thief, by Rebecca Stott
• November 23: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larson
• January 25, 2011: Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
• February 22, 2011: Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
• March 22, 2011: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett