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Coffee + Conversation Summer Sessions IV: "Brooklyn Bridge"

Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 1:30 pm

Join Coffee + Conversation at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library for Summer Sessions: "Picturing America", a special six-part discussion series examining great works in the history of American art. This week: Futurist artist Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge (c.1919-1920), an exemplary depiction of that industrial landmark which balances representative and abstract methods of art.

Georgetown Book Club

Thursday, August 17, 2017, 7:30 pm

Join the Georgetown Book Club as we discuss Ann Patchett's 2016 novel Commonwealth. The novel explores how a kiss between two married friends has far-reaching effects, resonating throughout their lives and the lives of their family members.

Coffee + Conversation Summer Sessions V: "Migrant Mother"

Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 1:30 pm

Join Coffee + Conversation at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library for Summer Sessions: "Picturing America", a special six-part discussion series examining great works in the history of American art. This week: photographer Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936), the renowned black & white image of a California migrant family that became the face of a crisis.

Twentythirtysomething Book Club (TTBC)

Thursday, August 24, 2017, 7:30 pm

Join TTBC, a book group for younger adults at least 21 years old, as we discuss Universal Harvester by John Darnielle. In the novel, a small town in 1990s Iowa is home to strange happenings when customers at the local video rental store report the appearance of mysterious, unsettling footage on their tapes.

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Coffee + Conversation Summer Sessions VI: "Ladder for Booker T. Washington"

Wednesday, August 30, 2017, 1:30 pm

Join Coffee + Conversation at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library for Summer Sessions: "Picturing America", a special six-part discussion series examining great works in the history of American art. This week: Martin Puryear's modern sculpture Ladder for Booker T. Washington (1996), handcrafted with traditional methods from wood that grew on the artist's own property.

Book Hill Talks: Planning for Incapacity, Durable Power of Attorney and the Alternatives

Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 7:00 pm

Uncertainties in life are all too certain to occur sooner than we would like. Faith Mullen, Visiting Associate Professor of Law & Director, General Practice Clinic, David A Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia will be on hand to discuss the timely topic of planning for incapacity.

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Georgetown Book Club

Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7:30 pm

Join the Georgetown Book Club as we discuss Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Twentythirtysomething Book Club (TTBC)

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 7:30 pm

Join TTBC, a book group for younger adults at least 21 years old, as we discuss A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes.

Twentythirtysomething Book Club (TTBC)

Thursday, October 26, 2017, 7:30 pm

Join TTBC, a book group for younger adults at least 21 years old, as we discuss The Mothers by Brit Bennett.

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Suspended Sentences

The Georgetown Book Club's February selection

Before being awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French novelist Patrick Modiano was not widely known outside his home country. However, for his readers, his preoccupations have long been clear, as his work often explores the Nazi occupation of Paris and its aftermath.

Friendships Between Women

Well-depicted female bonds in Literary Fiction and one Memoir.

Intimate. Challenging. Supportive. Absorbing. Provocative. Close friendships between two women can be all of these things and many more -- sometimes all at once. Just as no woman -- no human being -- is like another, so too are bonds between women diverse, and just as women as individuals continue to develop throughout life, so too can the bonds between them.

Classics Reading Group - Discusses Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

Tuesday January 5th, 2016 1:00 p.m.

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. She is widely recognized as one of America’s essential authors. Chopin started writing in her thirties and within a decade published ninety five short stories, two novels as well as several poems and critical essays..

Georgetown Book Club: God Help the Child

Selection for January

As its title suggests, Toni Morrison's 2015 novel G od Help the Child center

My Brilliant Friend

Georgetown Book Club's December selection

In My Brilliant Friend, Italian author Elena Ferrante introduces friends Elena and Lila, whose lives she goes on to follow throughout her recently completed

Beginning the Novel

by David Hoof, Professor Emeritus of Writing, Georgetown University

David Hoof, Professor Emeritus of Writing, Georgetown University, will offer three workshops on Beginning the Novel. Please join us on Saturdays - November 7, 14, and 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. Please call or email to register : 202-727-0232, georgetownlibrary@dc.gov

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Georgetown Book Club's November Selection

In his 2015 nonfiction title, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson chronicles the fate of ocean liner the RMS Lusitania, the sinking of which by German U-boat in May 1915 had far-reaching glob

Poetry Reading - Haiku By Roberta Beary

Award-winning DC poet Roberta Beary will read from her published works. Roberta studied haiku in Japan. Her individual poems, an unconventional hybrid of haiku and senryu, have been honored throughout North America, Europe and Asia for their innovative style. Her book of short poems, The Unworn Necklace(Snapshot Press, 2007), was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award (Poetry Society of America) and was named a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award prize winner.

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All Aunt Hagar's Children

Georgetown Book Club's October selection

This October, the Georgetown Book Club celebrates DC Reads with a discussion of this year's selection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones.

All Boarded Up

Boarding school stories for young adult readers

Novels set in boarding school are perfect for the reader who may care for realistic stories over science fiction and fantasy but still want a good dose of escapism. Although most of the books here fall under contemporary or realistic fiction, the boarding schools almost feel like separate worlds. Each of these institutions has a history and characters whose stories long to be told. These novels are written for a young adult audience but can be enjoyed by adult readers as well.

Liz A.