NOVEMBER 9th
SEPTEMBER 14th
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a curmudgeon—the kind of
man who points at people he
dislikes as if they were burglars
caught outside his bedroom window.
Behind the cranky exterior there is
a story and a sadness. So when
one November morning a chatty
young couple with two chatty young daughters move
in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it
is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of
unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient
art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change
one cranky old man and a local residents’ association
to their very foundations.
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The Adult Book Club meets on the second Thursday
of each month from 6:00 - 7:30pm. Doors open at
5:45pm; attendees are welcome to come early
to socialize before the book discussions begin.
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New attendees are always welcome; no RSVPs
are required. Our Adult Book Club program is free.
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Discussions are facilitated by an Anaheim Public
Library staff member. Refreshments and discussion
questions are provided.
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Meetings are held in Multi-Purpose Room #1
in the basement of the Central Library:
Anaheim Central Library
500 W. Broadway
Anaheim, CA 92805
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For information, please visit our website
www.anaheim.net/Library or call the Reference
Desk at (714) 765–1880
OCTOBER 12th
by Katarina Bivald
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara,
who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her
book-loving pen pal, Amy. When
she arrives, however, she finds
Amy's funeral guests just leaving.
The residents of Broken Wheel
are happy to look after their
bewildered visitor—there's not
much else to do in a dying small
town that's almost beyond repair.
You certainly wouldn't open a
bookstore. And definitely not with
the tourist in charge. Then again,
so is Sara. But Broken Wheel's own story might be more
eccentric and surprising than she thought.
DECEMBER 14th
Into the Beautiful North
Station Eleven
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Nayeli works at a taco shop in her
Mexican village and dreams about
her father, who journeyed to the US
to find work. While watching The
Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides
to go north herself and recruit seven
men -- her own "Siete Magníficos”
to repopulate her hometown and
protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it
over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose
as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful
North is the story of an irresistible young woman's
quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.
The Readers of Broken
Wheel Recommend
by Emily St. John Mandel
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All books read by the Adult Book Club are
available through the Anaheim Public Library
system. Books can also be found in the collections
of neighboring public library systems.
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Our friendly staff is always happy to help you
locate and obtain copies of books read by the
Adult Book Club.
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Anaheim Public Library’s branches:
www.anaheim.net/903/Library-Locations
Call 714-765-1880 at least 72 hours in advance
if special ADA accommodations are needed.
AS0317.500
The night that Arthur Leander had a heart attack on
stage, was when a devastating
flu pandemic arrived in the city.
Twenty years later, Kirsten
Raymonde moves between the
settlements of the altered world
with a small troupe of actors and
musicians who have dedicated
themselves to keeping the
remnants of art and humanity
alive. But when they arrive in
St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent
prophet who will threaten the groups existence.
Anaheim Central Library 2017
JANUARY 12th
The Magic Strings of
Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
MARCH 9th
Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved
disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised
by a blind music teacher in a small
Spanish town. At nine years old,
Frankie is sent to America in the
bottom of a boat. His gift is also
his burden, as he realizes, through
his music, he can actually affect
people’s futures—with one string
turning blue whenever a life
is altered.
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living
an exceedingly ordinary life—steady
boyfriend, close family—who has
barely been farther afield than their
tiny village. She takes a badly
needed job working for ex–Master
of the Universe Will Traynor, who is
wheelchair bound after an accident.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but
Lou refuses to treat him with kid
gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than
she expected.
FEBRUARY 9th
APRIL 13th
Fahrenheit 451
The House at Riverton
by Ray Bradbury
by Kate Morton
In this world, where television rules and literature
is on the brink of extinction,
firemen start fires rather than
put them out. Guy Montag is a
fireman, his job is to destroy the
most illegal of commodities, the
printed book, along with the
houses in which they are hid
den. Montag never questions
the destruction but then he meets
an eccentric young neighbor,
Clarisse, who introduces him to
a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present
where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead
of the mindless chatter of television.
Grace Bradley went to work at
Riverton House as a servant when
she was just a girl, before the First
World War. In 1999, when Grace is
ninety-eight years old and living out
her last days in a nursing home,
she is visited by a young director
who is making a film about the
events of that summer. She takes
Grace back to Riverton House and
reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the
story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian
aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant
twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way
of life vanished forever.
MAY 11th
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Man Booker Prize, 1997
Seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their
orld shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful
young cousin, Sophie. It is an
event that will lead to an illicit
liaison and tragedies accidental
and intentional, exposing “big
things [that] lurk unsaid” in a
country drifting dangerously
toward unrest. Set in Kerala,
India in 1969, this story
ambitiously tackles such
profound issues as family, race,
and class, the dictates of history, and the laws of love.
Rahel and Estha learn too soon that love and life can be
lost in a millisecond.
JULY 13th
Can’t We Talk About
Something More Pleasant
by Roz Chast
New Yorker cartoonist Roz
Chast brings her signature
wit to the topic of aging
parents. Spanning the last
several years of their lives
and told through four-color
cartoons, family photos, and
documents, and a narrative
as rife with laughs as it is
with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic
relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of
elderly parents.
AUGUST 10th
The Underground Railroad
JUNE 8th
by Colson Whitehead
by Carol Rifka Brunt
Cora is a slave on a cotton
plantation in Georgia. When
Caesar, a recent arrival from
Virginia, tells her about the
Underground Railroad, they
decide to take a terrifying risk
and escape. In Whitehead’s
ingenious conception, the
Underground Railroad is no
mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate
a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the
Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight,
state by state, seeking true freedom.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
There’s only one person who has ever truly understood
fourteen-year-old June Elbus,
and that’s her uncle, the
renowned painter Finn Weiss.
Shy at school and distant from
her older sister, June can only
be herself in Finn’s company;
he is her godfather, confidant,
and best friend. But Finn’s
death brings a surprise
acquaintance into June’s life—
someone who will help her to
heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about
Finn, her family, and even her own heart.
National Book Award, 2016