Evening
Book Discussion Group
Just
Desserts
Evening Book Discussion Group
Meets on the 4th Tuesday of
alternating months at 7:30 p.m. in the
library’s Community Room, unless noted.
For further information, please call
the Readers’ Advisory desk at
847-259-6050 ext. 111.
JM 7/13
Rolling Meadows Library
3110 Martin Lane
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
(847) 259-6050 • www.rmlib.org
2013 - 2014
Rolling Meadows Library
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Bill O’Reilly tells one of the most dramatic stories in American history: how one
gunshot changed our country forever. He
writes with suspense and careful attention
to detail. Killing Lincoln is a work of nonfiction that reads like an historical thriller.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
(3rd Tuesday of the month)
Defending Jacob
By William Landay
A fourteen-year-old boy is murdered near
his middle school. A second fourteen-yearold boy is in custody for the crime. The
author raises many personal and ethical
questions in this legal thriller. What are
a parent’s responsibilities to a child, to a
family, and to society at large?
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia,
Nell is raised by a dock master and his
wife. She is told the truth about how she
came to them on her twenty-first birthday.
Nell journeys back to England to find information about her past. This is a story of
inner and outer journeys.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Aviator’s Wife
By Melanie Benjamin
Anne Morrow married Colonel Charles
Lindberg in a headline-making wedding.
Anne thought that she had found a kindred
spirit and a fellow adventurer in Charles.
She became the first licensed female
glider pilot in the United States. After
several published works and six children,
Anne was seen by many Americans simply
as “the aviator’s wife.”
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is the story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby
and his love for the beautiful and later married Daisy Buchanan. It is a well-crafted
tale of America in the Roaring Twenties.
The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. Many
readers consider it the crowning achievement of Fitzgerald’s career.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
(3rd Tuesday of the month)
Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures
of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
By Becky Aikman
Meet the Saturday Night Widows! These
brave women are learning to live past “the
worst thing they thought could happen to
them.” Becky Aikman’s memoir is an uplifting story of what friends can achieve when
they support each other. This book is for
anyone who has faced a tragedy, but has
refused to be defined by it.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Gone Girl
By Gillian Flynn
Marriage can be a real killer! On the day
of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick’s
wife Amy disappears. There are signs of
a struggle and Nick becomes the prime
suspect. The novel tells their story from
alternating points of view. The truth lies
somewhere in between, and it is far more
dark and twisted than you can imagine!