Selected Community Events
Scottsville Library Book Group
Feb 17, 2012 1pm
Scottsville LibraryThe group will discuss a variety of works by Reynolds Price.
Nicole Funk
scottsville@jmrl.org
Brown Bag Book Club
Jan 23, 2012 12pm
Nelson Memorial LibraryABOUT FACE: COMMISSARIO GUIDO BRUNETTI MYSTERY by Donna Leon
At the request of a carabiniere investigator, Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into illegal garbage hauling that has resulted in a murder, while Brunetti's father-in-law asks him to investigate a potential business partner with a mysterious wife.
Tanith Knight
nelson@jmrl.org
History Book Club
Jan 23, 2011 12pm
JMRL - Central LibraryRIVER OF DARKNESS: FRANCISCO ORELLANA'S LEGENDARY VOYAGE OF DEATH AND DISCOVERY DOWN THE AMAZON by Buddy Levy.
The European discovery of the Amazon; the goal is conquest of Amazonia and exploitation of its riches for Spain's glory. Levy successfully conveys the Amazon's power and majesty, while shedding light on the futility of humanity's attempt to tame it.
Russ Lyttleton
central@jmrl.org
Thursday Night Book Group
Feb 2, 2012 7pm
Greene County LibrarySTAR OF THE SEA by Joseph O'Connor.
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1847, a boatload of Irish refugees heading for the promise of America is stalked by a killer in their ranks who seems bent on some kind of revenge.
Ginny Reese
greene@jmrl.org
Wednesday Night Book Group
Jan 11, 2012 7:30pm
Gordon Avenue LibraryLOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark.
In mid-century London, aspiring young writer Fleur Talbot becomes secretary to a motley group of egotists who are composing their memoirs in advance and uncovers material enough for any novelist, but is perplexed by the familiarity of their lives.
Meredith Dickens
gordon@jmrl.org
Literary Masterpiece Book Group
Feb 3, 2012 10am
Gordon Avenue Library"ALEXANDER" and "CAESAR" by Plutarch
Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece and Rome.
gordon@jmrl.org
Monday Evening Book Club
Feb 6, 2012 7pm
Crozet LibraryINVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison.
An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
crozet@jmrl.org
Wednesday Night Book Group
Feb 8, 2012 7:30pm
Gordon Avenue LibraryBLESS ME, ULTIMA by Rudolfo Anaya.
[part of THE BIG READ]
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will test the bonds that tie him to his people, and discover himself in the pagan past, in his father's wisdom, and in his mother's Catholicism. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world-and will nurture the birth of his soul.
gordon@jmrl.org
Brown Baggers Book Group
Feb 16, 2012 12pm
Central Library, 201 E. Market St, CharlottesvilleHOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford.
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
central@jmrl.org
Literary Masterpiece Book Group
Feb 17, 2012 10am
Gordon Avenue LibraryTHE ASPERN PAPERS by Henry James.
An American editor travels to Venice to find some papers of a deceased 19th century poet which he believes are being held by the poet's former love.
gordon@jmrl.org
Literary Masterpiece Book Group
Dec 2, 2011 10am
Gordon Avenue LibraryONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps.
Meredith Dickens
gordon@jmrl.org
Thursday Night Book Discussion Group
Dec 1, 2011 7pm
Greene County Library, Main St, StanardsvilleTHE SECRET SCRIPTURE by Sebastian Barry.
Recording the events of her life from a mental hospital as her hundredth birthday approaches, Roseanne McNulty considers returning to society when she learns that the hospital is about to close.
Ginny Reese
greene@jmrl.org
Monday Evening Book Club
Dec 5, 2011 7pm
Crozet LibraryRUN by Ann Patchett.
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
Wendy Saz
crozet@jmrl.org
Literary Masterpiece Book Group
Dec 16, 2011 10am
Gordon Avenue LibraryLOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark.
In mid-century London, aspiring young writer Fleur Talbot becomes secretary to a motley group of egotists who are composing their memoirs in advance and uncovers material enough for any novelist, but is perplexed by the familiarity of their lives.
Meredith Dickens
gordon@jmrl.org
Scottsville Library Book Club
Dec 20, 2011 7pm
Scottsville LibraryThe group will discuss a variety of works by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Noelle Funk
scottsville@jmrl.org
Nonfiction Book Group
Dec 21, 2011 7pm
Gordon Avenue LibraryPACKING FOR MARS by Mary Roach.
Describes the weirdness of space travel, answers questions about the long-term effects of living in zero gravity on the human body, and explains how space simulations on Earth can provide a preview to life in space.
Meredith Dickens
gordon@jmrl.org
Regional Author Series
Nov 13, 2011 2pm
Central Library, 201 E. Market St, CharlottesvilleJEFFERSON'S MOUNTAIN by Henry Wiencek.
The author will discuss his forthcoming book.
Joyce MacDonald
Scottsville Library Book Club
Nov 15, 2011 7pm
Scottsville LibraryThe group will discuss a variety of works by Ann Patchett.
Noelle Funk
scottsville@jmrl.org
Wednesday Night Book Group
Nov 16, 2011 7pm
Northside LibraryTHE KNOWN WORLD by Edward Jones.
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
Margarete Gillette
northside@jmrl.org
Brown Baggers Book Group
Nov 17, 2011 12pm
Central Library, 201 E. Market St, CharlottesvilleRIVER OF DOUBT: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard.
Chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and map the region surrounding a tributary called the River of Doubt, detailing the perilous conditions they faced.
Krista Farrell
central@jmrl.org
Book Signing with Phil James
Feb 4, 2011 5:30 - 7:00pm
McIntire Building, 200 Second Street NEOn Friday, February 4th, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society will be hosting a First Fridays event in the McIntire Building.
Local columnist Phil James will be celebrating and signing his recently released book, Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Stories from Western Albemarle. This compendium of columns by the popular Crozette Gazette author focuses on tales of Western Albemarle’s past, including architecture and town planning, local commerce, ecological history, and famous occurrences and tragedies from the area’s past.
This event, free and open to the public, will take place from 5:30pm-7:00pm at the McIntire Building, 200 Second Street NE, Charlottesville. Refreshments will be served.
Emma Earnst
434-296-1492
Brown Bag Book Club
Jul 28, 2008 Noon
Nelson Memorial LibraryA book discussion of A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
Tanith Knight
434.263.5904