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Note: The Glen Allen book discussion group meets at the Dumbarton Area Library. The Glen Allen branch is closed temporarily for expansion and renovation; it will reopen in 2010.

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Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
(The author will be at Dumbarton in person discussing his latest book!)
May 18, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
November 8, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
September 28, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
August 30, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
October 11, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
December 6, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

American Lion by Jon Meacham
April 7, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Goddin
June 3, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food for Life by Barbara Kingsolver
March 15, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
October 18, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Any Minute by Joyce Meyer
June 14, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
October 25, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Ascent of Money: a financial history of the world by Niall Ferguson
May 18, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
April 1, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
May 4, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden
January 6, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton
June 10, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
December 13, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Big Coal: the dirty secret behind America's energy future by Jeff Goodell
June 15, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Big Girls Don't Cry by Connie Briscoe
March 15, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Branch Library

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
June 14, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
July 12, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
August 12, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Blindspot by Jane Kamensky
June 21, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
April 19, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
January 14, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
December 21, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
February 3, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
June 28, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Broken Jewel by David L. Robbins
(The author will be here in person with book signing and refreshments to follow.)

April 12, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Bull's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
September 13, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library


The Camel Club by David Baldacci
August 24, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
May 13, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

China Road: a journey into the future of a rising power by Rob Gifford
November 16, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
December 2, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
December 28, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
June 1, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
August 24, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
November 15, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
February 4, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby
February 8, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
July 7, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
February 15, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 1) by M.C. Beaton
January 14, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
July 8, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Diablerie by Walter Mosley
October 18, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
July 26, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Eva's Man by Gayl Jones
April 19, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang
March 16, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Feed by M.T. Anderson-2009/10 All Henrico Reads selection
All Henrico Reads BookJanuary 26, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
March 11, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
March 30, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Finding Makeba by Alexs Pate
September 20, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Fire by Sebastian Junger
October 6, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Art Theft by Ulrich Boser
November 3, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
March 1, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
September 13, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
April 26, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
August 2, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
November 8, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

Going Down South by Bonnie Glover
May 17, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
January 26, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
January 11, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
April 5, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
April 8,
1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
May 25
, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Hatred for Tulips (aka Joop: a Novel of Anne Frank) by Richard Lourie
September 9, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Have a Little Faith: a true story by Mitch Albom
December 21, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 12, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
September 20, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
October 4, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
February 11, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
March 22, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
(Author will participate via web conference!)

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
July 27, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
September 27, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
November 4, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

I am Murdered by Bruce Chadwick
August 9, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

I Can't Wait on God by Albert French
June 21, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
January 7, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Incantation by Alice Hoffman
May 6, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
November 16, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
November 15, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
January 25, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

July's People by Nadine Gordimer
July 1, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

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Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
July 20, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
April 6, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
April 20, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
September 21, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
June 22, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
July 19, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

The Lost City of Z by David Grann
May 5, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
May 13, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
July 27
, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
August 16, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Map of Bones by James Rollins
June 22, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
February 1, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
April 12, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
November 22, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Monster of Florence by Douglas J. Preston
August 4, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
March 11, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Murder on a Girls Night Out by Anne George
October 14, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
July 8, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
February 16, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
September 2, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
January 19, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
January 25, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
January 11, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
February 23, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
May 25, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

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Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
June 2, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
February 8, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
May 3, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
November 30, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
February 22, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
November 23, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

The Rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn Nicholas
September 21, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
December 20, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
October 7, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes: A Novel by Cathy Holton
January 11, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
May 10, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
June 14, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall
August 17, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
May 24, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Say You're One of Them by Uwen Akpan
March 8, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Schooled by Gordon Korman
February 23, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Secret Soldiers by Phillip Gerard
December 1, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafo'n
February 2, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
September 9, 7:00 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
September 28, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Skeletons on the Zahara: a true story of survival by Dean King
October 19, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The Soloist by Steve Lopez
September 1, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Some People Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
February 15, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

Sometimes Mine by Martha Moody
July 12, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Still Alice by Lisa Genova
May 17, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
August 9, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
November 8, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

The Story Sister's by Alice Hoffman
May 10, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
June 21, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
September 13, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
December 13, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

SuperFreakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
April 20, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley
March 4, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library

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Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
November 18, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
March 23, 1:00 p.m. Varina Branch Library
April 27, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Tinkers by Paul Harding
October 19, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
October 26, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

True Blue by David Baldacci
October 11, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
March 3, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library

Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
January 5, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards
April 27, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

While I was Gone by Sue Miller
October 14, 1:00 & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
January 4, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
March 8, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library

The Worst Hard Time: the story o those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan
July 20, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
March 2, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
August 17, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library

Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
August 16, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
October 27, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library

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