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Mainly Reading Book Club

Main Library

1st Saturday of each month - 10:00 a.m.

tags: Books & Authors, Enjoying Life, General Audience

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Eclectic book discussion group the first Saturday of every month.

Books for 2013:
Jan 5 · Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Feb 2 · The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal

Mar 2 · The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean

Apr 6 · Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

May 4 · Any title by local author and river historian Roy Webb, in conjunction with Utah Water Week

Roy Webb is the multimedia archivist for Special Collections at the J.Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He has been running rivers since 1976 and has led history river trips on the Green, Colorado, San Juan and Yampa Rivers since 1986. Roy has written scores of publications on river history, including If We Had a Boat: Green River Explorers, Adventurers and Runners, Riverman: the Story of Bus Hatch, and his latest, Lost Canyons of the Green River: the Story Before Flaming Gorge Dam.

Jun 1 · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

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Location: Main Library, Level 2

Contact Information: 801-524-8200

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