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 | Book Discussions
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*The Book Group at the El Retiro Library *Mayhem In the A.M. at Henderson Library *Biography & Memoirs at Katy Geissert Library
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*Mystery at North Torrance Library *Creative Spirit Book Group at the Southeast Library *Book Group at Walteria Library
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*Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group
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The Book Group at El Retiro Library

The El Retiro Library Book Group

Talks About Great Books!

All discussions are free - no registration is required.

Meets first Tuesday of the month at 10:00a.m. begining in August 2010.

Just read the book prior to the meeting!
 

 

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery

September 7, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
 

English Creek
by Ivan Doig

October 5, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

The events of summer, 1939, in Two Counties, Montana--the herding of sheep onto the summer range and the rodeo, picnic, and square dance on the Fourth of July counterpoint the coming of age of Jick McCaskell.
 

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland

November 2, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
 

The Ginger Tree
by Osald Wynd

December 7, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

Over a period of forty years, beginning in 1903, a Scottish woman marries a British military attache in Peking, becomes passionately involved with a Japanese military aristocrat, and proves herself to be an extremely successful businesswoman.



 

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El Retiro Library

126 Vista del Parque, Redondo Beach

310-375-0922