New Year's Resolution #5 - Join a book discussion group

Join us for a morning of lively discussion at the Sterling Morton Library's book discussion group, Leafing Through the Pages. Meeting on the second Thursday of each month from 10-12 in the Sterling Morton Library, this year we will be reading and discussing:

January 12, 2006 - Teale, Edwin Way. Wandering through winter : a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American winter, 1965.

February 9, 2006 - Heinrich, Bernd. Winter world : the ingenuity of animal survival, 2003.

March 9, 2006 - Mee, Margaret. Margaret Mee : in search of flowers of the Amazon forest : diaries of an English artist reveal the beauty of the vanishing rainforest, 1988.

April 13, 2006 - Simon, Laura. Dear Mr. Jefferson : letters from a Nantucket gardener, 1998.

May 11, 2006 - Nearing, Helen and Scott. Living the good life : how to live sanely and simply in a troubled world, 1970.

June 8, 2006 - Moring, John. Early American naturalists : exploring the American west, 1804-1900, 2002.

July 13, 2006 - Gallagher, Tim. The grail bird : hot on the trail of the Ivory-billed woodpecker, 2005.

August 10, 2006 - DeBlieu, Jan. Wind : how the flow of air has shaped life, myth, and the land, 1998.

September 14, 2006 - Horn, Tammy. Bees in America : how the honey bee shaped a nation, 2005.

October 12, 2006 – Berry, Wendell. Watch with me : and six other stories of the yet-remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife, Miss Minnie, nee Quinch, 1994.

November 9, 2006 - Peattie, Donald Culross. Green laurels : the lives and achievements of the great naturalists, 1936.

December 14, 2006 - Capek, Karel. “The Blue Chrysanthemum” & “The Stolen Cactus” (Short stories in: Tales from two pockets, 1994.)