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Book Discussion Groups in the Branch Libraries 2010-2011

58th Street | 67th Street | 96th Street | Baychester | Bloomingdale | Columbus | Countee Cullen | Epiphany | Fort Washington | George Bruce | Grand Central | Hamilton Grange | Hudson Park | Inwood | Jefferson Market | Kips Bay | Morris Park | Morningside Heights | Mott Haven | Muhlenberg | Mulberry Street | New Amsterdam | New Dorp | Ottendorfer | Parkchester | Riverdale | Riverside | Roosevelt Island | St. Agnes | Science, Industry and Business | Seward Park | Soundview | South Beach | Spuyten Duyvil | St. George Library Center | Throg's Neck | Tottenville | Tremont | Van Nest | Webster | Westchester Square | Woodlawn Heights | Yorkville

Please note: Readings and/or dates are subject to change. Please call the individual library to verify this information. Pre-registration is required for most groups.


58th Street

127 East 58th Street (between Park and Lexington avenues)
New York, NY 10022
212.759.7358

Wednesdays at 6 p.m.


67th Street

328 East 67th Street (near First Avenue)
New York, NY 10021
212.734.1717

Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m

January 2012 - Cloud Atlas
February 2012 - Dreams from my Father
March 2012 - Shadow of the Wind
April 2012 - The Feminine Mystique
May 2012 - Perfect Reader
June 2012 - Bossypants


96th Street

112 East 96th Street (near Lexington Avenue)
New York, NY 10128
212.289.0908

Thursdays at 6 p.m.

January 2012 - Cutting for Stone
February 2012 - Home
March 2012 - Flannery O'Connor - Collected Works
April 2012 - A View from the Bridge
May 2012 - The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
June 2012 -


Baychester

2049 Asch Loop North (at Bartow Avenue entrance to Co-op City)
Bronx, NY 10475
718.379.6700

Thursdays at 1:30 p.m.


Bloomingdale

150 West 100th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues)
New York, NY 10025
212.222.8030

Tuesdays at 3 p.m.

January 26, 2012 - Small Island
February 23, 2012 - Zeitoun
March 22, 2012 - Brooklyn
April 26, 2012 - In The Garden Of Beasts
May 24, 2012 - The Help
June 27, 2012 - Home


Columbus

742 10th Avenue (between 50th and 51st streets)
New York, NY 10019
212.586.5098

Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.

January 12, 2012 - Never Let Me Go
February 9, 2012 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
March 8, 2012 - Peony in Love
April 12, 2012 - The Piano Lesson
May 10, 2012 - The Girl Who fell from the Sky
June 14, 2012 - Sarah's Key


Countee Cullen

104 West 136th Street (near Lenox Avenue)
New York, NY 10030
212.491.2070

Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

January 18, 2012 - Sarah's Key
February 22, 2012 - The Kitchen House
March 21, 2012 - Girl In Translation
April 18, 2012 - Little Bee
May 16, 2012 - A Single Thread
June 20, 2012 - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter


Epiphany

228 East 23rd Street (near Second Avenue)
New York, N.Y. 10010
212.679.2645

Tuesdays at 3 p.m.

January 26, 2012 - The Bonesetter's Daughter
February 23, 2012 - The Adults
March 30, 2012 - Ethan Frome
April 27, 2012 - Shalimar the Clown
May 25, 2012 - King Lear
June 29, 2012 - Glorious


Fort Washington

535 West 179th Street (between St. Nicholas and Audubon avenues)
New York, NY 10033
212.927.3533

Saturdays at 11 a.m.


George Bruce

518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue)
New York, NY 10027
212.662.9727

Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.


Grand Central

135 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
212.621.0670

Tuesdays from 56:30 p.m.


Hamilton Grange

503 West 145th Street
New York, NY 10031
212.926.2147

Wednesdays at 5p.m.

January 2012 - Just Wanna Testify
February 2012 - Peace from Broken Pieces
March 2012 - Snapped
April 2012 - White Tiger
May 2012 - Aftermath
June 2012 - Mama Ruby


Hudson Park

66 Leroy Street (at 7th Avenue South)
New York, NY 10014
212.243.6876

Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.


Inwood

4790 Broadway (near Dyckman Street)
New York, NY 10034
212.942.2445

Thursdays at 7 p.m.


Jefferson Market

425 Avenue of the Americas (at 10th Street)
New York, NY 10011
212.243.4334

Thursdays at 4:30 p.m.


Kips Bay

446 Third Avenue (at East 31st Street)
New York, NY 10016
212.683.2520

Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.

January 28, 2012 - The Help
February 25, 2012 - The Last Lecture
March 24, 2012 - The Reader
April 28, 2012 - Thunderstruck
May 26, 2012 - My Sister's Keeper


Morningside Heights

2900 Broadway (at 113th Street)
New York, NY 10025
212.864.2530

Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

January 12, 2012 - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
February 9, 2012 - The Secret Life of Bees
March 8, 2012 - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
April 12, 2012 - Agent Zigzag
May 10, 2012 - Like Water for Chocolate
June 14, 2012 - The Shadow of the Wind


Morris Park

985 Morris Park Avenue (between Radcliff and Colden avenues)
Bronx, NY 10462
718.931.0636

Mondays at 6 p.m.

January 16, 2012 - In the Kitchen
February 13, 2012 - The Pilot's Wife
March 12, 2012 - Play Dead
April 16, 2012 - The Bonesetter's Daughter
May 14, 2012 - Look Again
June 18, 2012 - The Emperor of Ocean Park


Mott Haven

321 East 140th Street
Bronx, New York 10454
718.665.4878

Mondays at 4:30 p.m.


Mulberry Street

10 Jersey Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry streets)
New York, NY 10012
212.966.3424

Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

January 25, 2012 - Winter's Bone
February 29, 2012 - The Corrections
March 28, 2012 - Unfamiliar Fishes
April 25, 2012 - Death of the Hearth
May 30, 2012 - Heart of Darkness
June 27, 2012 - Cleopatra


Muhlenberg

209 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011-2379
212.924.1585

Thursdays at 6 p.m.


New Amsterdam

9 Murray Street (between Broadway and Church streets)
New York, NY 10007
212.732.8186

Mondays at 6 p.m.


New Dorp

309 New Dorp Lane
Staten Island, NY 10306
718.351.2977

Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

January 20, 2012 - Uncle Tom's Cabin
February 17, 2012 - The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
March 23, 2012 - Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
April 20, 2012 - Summer
May 25, 2012 - The Red and the Black
June 22, 2012 - The Space Between Us


Ottendorfer

135 Second Avenue (Near East 8th Street and St. Marks Place)
New York, NY 10003
212.674.0947

Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.


Parkchester

1988 Westchester Avenue
New York, NY 10462
718.829.7830

Saturdays at 11 a.m. 

January 21, 2012 - A Free Life
February 18, 2012 - Shanghai Girls Down
March 17, 2012 - These Mean Streets
April 21, 2012 - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
May 19, 2012 - Sarah's Key
June 16, 2012 - The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings


Riverdale

5540 Mosholu Avenue (East of Riverdale Avenue at West 256th Street)
Bronx, NY 10471
718.549.1212

Wednesdays at 1 p.m.

January 18, 2012 - Anna Karenina
February 15, 2012 - Beloved
March 21, 2012 - Jude the Obscure
April 18, 2012 - 1776
May 16, 2012 - Suffer the Little Children
June 20, 2012 - The Warmth of Other Suns


Riverside

127 Amsterdam Avenue (at West 65th Street)
New York, NY 10023
212.870.1810

Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m.


Roosevelt Island

524 Main Street
New York, NY 10044
212.308.6243

Thursdays at 6:30 PM

January 19, 2012 - The Red Pony
February 16, 2012 - Survivor
March 15, 2012 - Outliers
April 19, 2012 - Our Kind of Traitor
May 17, 2012 - The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
June 21, 2012 - My Father’s Secret War


Science, Industry and Business Library

188 Madison Avenue (at 34th Street)
New York, NY 10016
212.592.7000

Mondays at 1 p.m. (former Donnell Group)


St. Agnes

444 Amsterdam Avenue (near West 81st Street )
New York, NY 10024
212.877.4380

Mondays at 6 p.m. 

January 30, 2012 - A Tale of Two Cities
February 27, 2012 - The Quiet American
March 26, 2012 - Changing Places
April 30, 2012 - The Glass Room
May 21, 2012 - Sabbath's Theater
June 25, 2012 - Shanghai Girls


Seward Park

192 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
212.477.6770

Mondays at 6 p.m.


Soundview

660 Soundview Avenue (at Seward Avenue)
Bronx, NY 10473
718.589.0880

Saturdays at 1 p.m.

January 28, 2012 - The Midnight House
February 25, 2012 - Song of the Cuckoo Bird
March 31, 2012 - The Post Mistress
April 28, 2012 - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
May 26, 2012 - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
June 30, 2012 - The Namesake


South Beach

21-25 Robin Road (at Ocean Avenue and Father Capodanno Boulevard)
Staten Island, NY 10305
718.816.5834

Wednesdays at 11 a.m.


Spuyten Duyvil

650 West 235th Street (at Independence Avenue)
Bronx, NY 10463
718.796.1202

Tuesdays at 1 p.m.

March 1, 2012 - The Murder of King Tut
April 10, 2012 - The Swan Thieves
May 8, 2012 - The Piano Teacher
June 12, 2012 - The Year of the Flood


St. George Library Center

5 Central Avenue (near Borough Hall)
Staten Island, NY 10301
718.442.8560

Mondays at 6:30 p.m.


Throg's Neck

3025 Cross Bronx Expressway Extension (at East Tremont Avenue)
Bronx, NY 10473
718.589.0880

Thursdays at 1 p.m. 


Tottenville

7430 Amboy Road
Staten Island, NY 10307
718.984.0945

Mondays at 7 p.m.


Tremont

1866 Washington Avenue (at East 176th Street)
Bronx, NY 10457
718.299.5177

Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

January 10, 2012 - Coldest Winter Ever
February 14, 2012 - Project Girl
March 13, 2012 - Say You're one of Them
April 10, 2012 - Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
May 8, 2012 - The Color of Water
June 12, 2012 - Drown


Van Nest

2147 Barnes Avenue (Near Pehlam Parkway South)
Bronx, NY 10462
718.829.5864

Thursdays at 1 p.m.

January 23, 2012 - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
February 27, 2012 - The Lacuna
March 19, 2012 - Life of Pi
April 16, 2012 - Stitches
May 21, 2012 - In the Woods
June 18, 2012 - Beowulf


Webster

1465 York Avenue (near East 78th Street)
New York, N.Y. 10021
212.288.5049

Thursdays at 6 p.m.

January 2012 - The Elephant to Hollywood
March 2012 - The Year of Living Biblically
May 2012 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


Westchester Square

2521 Glebe Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
718.863.0436

Wednesdays at 2 p.m.


Woodlawn Heights

4355 Katonah Avenue (at East 239th Street)
Bronx, NY 10470
718.519.9627

Second Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.


Yorkville

222 East 79th Street (between Second and Third avenues)
New York, NY 10021
212.744.5824

Mondays at 1:30 p.m

January 23, 2012 - Dream of Joy
February 27, 2012 - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
March 19, 2012 - Cleopatra: A Life
April 16, 2012 - And Thereby Hangs a Tale
May 21, 2012 - A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
June 18, 2012 - The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob DeZoet

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