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Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group Brown Bag Book Club  Who Picked This Book? Club  Chapter-a-Day Online Book Clubs Second Tuesday Book Discussion Group (click here for printable 2008 schedule) The Second Tuesday Club meets at Schimelpfenig Library, 5024 Custer Rd, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month with the exception of  December.   This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others.  Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting.  No registration is required.  For more information call 972.769.4200, Donna Villeponteaux, librarian coordinator. 2008 Schedule January 8  The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner February 12   We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver March 11   The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham April 8   Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields May 13   The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls June 10   The Doctor’s Daughter by Hilma Wolitzer July 8   Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver August 12   The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri September 9   A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini October 14  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See November 11  My Antonia by Willa Cather For past selections of the Second Tuesday Discussion Group, click here. Brown Bag Book Club   (click here for printable 2008 schedule) The Brown Bag Book Club meets at Parr Library, 6200 Windhaven Parkway, from 12noon to 1:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month with the exception of December. This group is for all adult members of the community, 18 years and over, who love to read and discuss what they have read with others.  Participants are encouraged to have read the featured book of the month, but it is not required for admission to the meeting.  No registration is required.  For more information, call or email Peter Jackson, the librarian coordinator, at 972.769.4300, peterj@plano.gov. 2008 Schedule January 24, 2008    Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond February 28, 2008           Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen March 27, 2008    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson April 24, 2008     The Road by Cormac McCarthy May 22, 2008     A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini June 26, 2008     Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen For past selections of the Brown Bag Book Club click here. Who Picked This Book? Club (((printable 2008 schedule) Haggard Library 1st Monday of the month (except September). 1-2:30 pm What are you reading now?  Join our Who Picked This Book? Club and share information about the best books you’ve read lately.  Discover new titles to read, hear about the forthcoming books that publishers predict will be big hits, and see what other book clubs are reading.  Books discussed at the meetings will be posted on the Plano Picks page.  No fuss—and you get to read the books you want! PPLS Online Book Clubs PPLS offers 11 online Book Clubs        PPLS Online Book Clubs email you a portion of a book every weekday morning. We are pleased to offer the Fiction, Pre-Publication, Nonfiction, Teen, Business, Good News, Romance, Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror and Audio Book Clubs. For more information about PPLS Online Book Clubs click here.