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Nonfiction Book Discussion Group

Join us for Hoover Public Library's nonfiction book discussion group. Night sessions are the 4th Thursday of the month from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Administration Conference Room. Day sessions are on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. One book is discussed each session. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Feel welcome to join us!

Destiny of the Republic

By Candice Millard
For a man forced into the presidency, the legacy of James Garfield extended far beyond his lifetime, and Destiny of the Republic revisits his meteoric rise within the military and government with meticulous research and intimate focus.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 7:00 pm

In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

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Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 am

Citizens of London

By Lynne Olson
The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s Lend-Lease program in London; and John Gilbert Winant, the shy, idealistic U.S. ambassador to Britain.

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Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 7:00 pm

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.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 7:00 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.

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Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 7:00 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.

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