EVENING BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Discussions are held in the Crown Point Library Board Room on the second Thursday at 6:30 pm.  The group does not meet in July, August, or December.

Books assigned are available on special loan at the Circulation Desk.  Additional copies can be borrowed from the regular library collection or through interlibrary loan.

An electronic newsletter is available here for reading or by subscribing.

A list of all the books the groups have read is available here.

New members are always welcome!  For more information, contact the discussion leader: Barb Houk, Special Services Librarian, at 219-663-0270 or email bhouk@crownpointlibrary.org.

2012 -- New Schedule

Due to the January cancellation, I have moved push the titles to the following months.

  Thursday, March 8: 1000 White Women, by Jim Fergus

A vivid portrait of the American West follows May Dodd as she leaves the East Coast asylum to which she had been committed by her high-society family, heads west, and, with the help of a government program, ends up marrying a chief of the Cheyenne nation.

  Thursday, April 12: Shadow Divers, by Robert Kurson

Recounts the discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following years to researching the identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts and breaking new ground in the world of diving.

  Thursday, May 10: Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

A compelling account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 brings together the divergent stories of two very different men who played a key role in shaping the history of the event--visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, an insatiable and charming serial killer who lured women to their deaths.

  Thursday, June 14: Montana 1948, by Larry Watson

A series of events in a small western town changes the lives of David Hayden, his sheriff father, his mother, and their Sioux housekeeper, as they discover the truth about family loyalty.