Thursday, December 10, 2009

Leafing Through the Pages - 2010

Leafing Through the Pages, the book discussion group of the Sterling Morton Library, will be reading and discussing the following works during 2010:
  • January 14, 2010 - Hensley, William L. Iġġiaġruk. Fifty miles from tomorrow : a memoir of Alaska and the real people, 2009.
  • February 11, 2010 - Heinrich, Bernd. The snoring bird : my family's journey through a century of biology, 2007.
  • March 11, 2010 - Enchanted April (1992) – Film - Showing times to be determined.
  • April 8, 2010 - Wilke, Joanne. Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West, 2007.
  • May 13, 2010 - Cousteau, Jacques and Susan Schiefelbein. The human, the orchid, and the octopus : exploring and conserving our natural world, 2007.
  • June 10, 2010 - Gentile, Olivia. Life list : a woman’s quest for the world’s most amazing birds, 2009.
  • July 8, 2010 - Smith, Jane S. The garden of invention : Luther Burbank and the business of breeding plants, 2009.
  • August 12, 2010 - Bryson, Bill. A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 1999.
  • September 9, 2010 - Bartram, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, east and west Florida, originally published in 1791.
  • October 14, 2010 - Stewart, Amy. Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities, 2009.
  • November 11, 2010 - Buck, Pearl. The Good earth, originally published in 1931.
  • December 9, 2010 - Ballowe, Jim. Christmas in Illinois, 2010.

Meeting the second Thursday of each month from 10-12 in the Sterling Morton Library of The Morton Arboretum.

Walk with us in the woods with Bill Bryson, swim underwater with Jacques Cousteau, tour with 8 women in a Model T, visit Alaska, discover some very dangerous plants, travel with William Bartram in the Carolinas (circa 1791) and spend Christmas in Illinois. If that isn't enough -- with the addition of a film -- we'll explore a small mediaeval Italian castle on the shores of the Mediterranean and discover the transformative power of landscape, space and setting!

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