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Black Authors Group

Fairfield Area Library-Meets every 3rd Monday at 7:00 p.m.

January 11 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
February 15 Some People Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
March 15 Big Girls Don't Cry by Connie Briscoe
April 19 Eva's Man by Gayl Jones
May 17 Going Down South by Bonnie Glover
June 21 I Can't Wait on God by Albert French
August 16 Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
September 20 Finding Makeba by Alexs Pate
October 18 Diablerie by Walter Mosley
November 15 Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
December 6 Reader's Choice & Treats

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Mystery Book Group

Sandston Branch Library-Meets select 2nd Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.

January 14 Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 1) by M.C. Beaton
March 11 The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
May 13

Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

July 8 Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
September 9 She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
October 14 Murder on a Girls Night Out by Anne George

Real Stories Nonfiction Group

Tuckahoe Area Library-Meets 3rd Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

April 20 SuperFreakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
May 18 The Ascent of Money: a financial history of the world by Niall Ferguson
June 15 Big Coal: the dirty secret behind America's energy future by Jeff Goodell
July 20 The Worst Hard Time: the story o those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan
August 17 Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall
September 21 The Rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn Nicholas
October 19 Skeletons on the Zahara: a true story of survival by Dean King
November 16 China Road: a journey into the future of a rising power by Rob Gifford
December 21 Have a Little Faith: a true story by Mitch Albom

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Nonfiction Group

Twin Hickory Area Library-Meets every 1st Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

January 6 The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden
February 3 The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
March 3 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
April 7 American Lion by Jon Meacham
May 5 The Lost City of Z by David Grann
June 2 Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
July 7 Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
August 4 The Monster of Florence by Douglas J. Preston
September 1 The Soloist by Steve Lopez
October 6 Fire by Sebastian Junger
November 3 The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Art Theft by Ulrich Boser
December 1 Secret Soldiers by Phillip Gerard

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Not Just for Kids Group

Tuckahoe Area Library-Meets every 4th Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.

January 26 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
February 23 Schooled by Gordon Korman
March 30 Feed by M.T. Anderson-ALL HENRICO READS selection
April 27 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
May 25 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
June 22 Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
July 27 Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
August 24 Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
September 28 Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
October 26 Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
November 30 Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

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Women of Character

Fairfield Area Library-Meets every 1st Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

January 7 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
February 4 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
March 4 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley
April 1 Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
May 6 Incantation by Alice Hoffman
June 3 An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Goddin
July 1 July's People by Nadine Gordimer
August 5 Summer Break
September 2 Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
October 7 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
November 4 The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
December 2 A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

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