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Book Discussion Groups

Join us for Hoover Public Library's book discussion groups. Sessions are monthly. One book is discussed each session. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Feel welcome to join us! Skip Links: Currently Reading, Book Club Kits

Book Club Kits

Check it out! Everything you need for your book club is in this kit (just add readers).

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  • 8 or more copies of the title
  • Author biography
  • Reviews of the book
  • Discussion questions
  • An annotated list of other Instant Book Club Kits
Complete Lists of Titles In the Catalog Guidelines
  • Each kit checks out to one group member for a period of six weeks.
  • Kits may not be renewed.
  • Overdue fines are $1 per day.
  • Kits may be reserved up to one year in advance by calling:
    • 444-7820 for Fiction
    • 444-7840 for Nonfiction

    Please return kits in a timely manner so others who have reserved kits may have access to them when needed.

Currently Reading

Below you will see a list of what we are reading. Use the links provided to get a copy and join us for a lively discussion. Sessions are the monthly. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

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Blood and Thunder

By Hampton Sides
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West.

Find Blood and Thunder in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Nonfiction Book Discussion Group
Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 7:00 pm

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By Rachel Joyce
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking to save someone else's life.

Find The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in the catalog.

Book Group: 
First Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Remarkable Creatures

By Tracy Chevalier
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.

Find Remarkable Creatures in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Second Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr

By H. W. Brands
Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history, Burr was also a man before his time—a proponent of equality between the sexes well over a century before women were able to vote in the US.

Find The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Nonfiction Book Discussion Group
Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Mission to Paris

By Alan Furst
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself.

Find Mission to Paris in the catalog.

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By Rachel Joyce
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking to save someone else's life.

Find The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Second Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

To End All Wars

By Adam Hochschild
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the first World War's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper.

Find To End All Wars in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Nonfiction Book Discussion Group
Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Defending Jacob

By William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Find Defending Jacob in the catalog.

Book Group: 
First Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Mission to Paris

By Alan Furst
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself.

Find Mission to Paris in the catalog.

Book Group: 
Second Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Gone Girl

By Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.

Find Gone Girl in the catalog.

Book Group: 
First Thursday Book Discussion Group
Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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