Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Book Thief"

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

May 19, 2011 @ 5:15pm

It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery...This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Book Thief"

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

May 19, 2011 @ 5:15pm

It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery...This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Bel Canto"

"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett

April 21, 2011 @ 5:15pm

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. 

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Bel Canto"

"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett

April 21, 2011 @ 5:15pm

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. 

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Handmaid's Tale"

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

March 17, 2011 @ 5:15pm

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Handmaid's Tale"

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

March 17, 2011 @ 5:15pm

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Birth of Venus"

"The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant

February 17, 2011 @ 5:15pm

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Allesandra Cecchi, a young heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly branch.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Birth of Venus"

"The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant

February 17, 2011 @ 5:15pm

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Allesandra Cecchi, a young heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Sarah's Key"

"Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay

January 20, 2011 @ 5:15pm

Julia, an American journalist is investigating the roundup of Jews from Paris in 1942. In her research, she finds that she is tied to Sarah. Sarah, in her attempt to save her brother from the roundup, locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for him. Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Funny in Farsi"

"Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America" by Firoozeh Dumas

December 16, 2010

A hilarious and interesting story of growing up in California and the blending of cultures. Fast-food, an engaging family, and cultures coming together in this fast paced tale of life.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Ghosts of Lone Jack"

"The Ghosts of Lone Jack" by Lance Noel

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Written by local author, Lance Noel, 10 year old Jared and his dad plan to spend an uneventful summer in Lone Jack, Missouri. All is well until Jared runs into the ghost of a Civil War innkeeper and wonders if he has lost his mind. Confederate and Union ghouls line up on the battlefield and only Jared can save the town from its ghosts.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday.

Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!



Little Dixie Reading Group - "The Poisonwood Bible"

"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The thrilling story told by the wife and four daughters of an evangelical Baptist missionary to the Belgium Congo in 1959. Set during the Congo's fight for independence and unraveling of the family. Nathan Price and his family to go Africa to "civilize" the Africans without a thought to traditions or beliefs.

Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!