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Tuesday · 7:00 PM Thursday · 7:00 PM Tuesday · 6:00 PM Saturday · 10:00 AM Sunday · 7:00 PM Alameda’s Young Adult Book The Recommended By A The Book Busters Middle The Second Saturday Book The Modern Lit Book 8Club (ages 13+) will meet. 10Stranger Book Club will 8Reader Book Club (ages 9-12) 12Club will will discuss The 13Club will discuss The discuss Balzac and the Little Chinese will discuss At the Mountain of Mad- Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Sound and the Fury by William Wednesday · 7:00 PM Seamstress by Dai Sijie. ness by H.P. Lovecraft and adapted Faulkner. The Neptune Garden Book Club by Ian N.J. Culbard. Sunday · 11:00 AM 9will meet. Thursday · 7:00 PM The World Affairs Council Tuesday · 7:00 PM The Healthy Lives Book Sunday · 6:00 pM 13Book Club will meet. The Cooks & Books Book Thursday · 7:00 PM 31Group will discuss Ein- The Speculative Fiction 15Club will discuss The Sweet The Big Yes Society Discus- stein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman. 13Book Group will discuss Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in 17sion Group will meet. JRR Tolkien’s classic The Hobbit. the World’s Most Glorious-And Per- THE CASTRO plexing-City by David Lebovitz. Friday · 5:00 PM Tuesday · 7:00 PM Wednesday · 7:00 PM The Our Parents Made Us MOUNTAIN VIEW The Fourth Tuesday Saturday · 2:00 PM The SFLGBT Book Club will Do This Book Club will dis- (Margie’s) Book Club The SF Business Book Club 18 Tuesday · 7:00 PM 22 discuss Palimpsest: A Memoir cuss The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. will discuss the The Snow Child by 9 will discuss The Start-Up The Politically Inspired Book by Gore Vidal. 27 Eowyn Ivey. of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Club will discuss Republic, Thursday · 7:00 PM 8 Yourself, and Transform Your Career Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress Wednesday · 6:30 PM The Desert Island Book by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. — And a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence The Central SF Classic Club will discuss Hold It 24 Lessig. Lit Book Club will discuss ‘Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson. LAUREL VILLAGE 16 Wednesday · 7:30 PM Great Expectations by Charles Dick- Classics I Forgot To Read Monday · 7:30 PM Sunday · 1:00 PM ens. Sunday · 2:00 PM will discuss Cloud Atlas The Broken Compass The Adventurous Readers Club 30 The B.G.P. Social Network by David Mitchell. Adventure Book Club will will discuss The Spindlers by Book Society (ages 16 & 14 6 27 discuss Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Lauren Oliver. up) will discuss Shine by Lauren Sacks. Myracle. Tuesday · 7:00 PM Sunday · 6:00PM Sunday · 5:00 PM The Women We’d Like To Lunch Introducing The Intimates: East Bay Queer Book Night Of The Living Book 8With Book Club will discuss A Club will discuss Insignificant Oth- 20Club will discuss Salem’s Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by The Speculative Fiction Book Group ers by Sam McCauley. Lot by Stephen King. Margaret Drabble. at BOOKS INC. Palo Alto Monday · 7:00 PM Sunday · 1:00 PM The Hands On Bay Area The Wild Girls Mother The Speculative Fiction book sion. We have an established 28Book Club will discuss The 13Daughter Book Club will group focuses on science fiction, group of regular participants, Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. will discuss Three Times Lucky by fantasy, and tales of alternate but always welcome fresh blood. Sheila Turnage. social realties. Picks include Our first meeting will be on classics, contemporary, and Sunday January 13th, where we Tuesday · 7:00 PM young adult. Each meeting will discuss J.R.R. Tolkien’s clas- The Foreign Intrigue Book starts with a check-in period in sic The Hobbit. 15Club will discuss Bruno, which attendees get a chance Chief of Police by Martin Walker. to summarize their feelings and We will be meeting at Books rate the book at hand. Followed Inc. Palo Alto the 2nd Sunday of Wednesday · 6:00 PM by free-for-all general discus- each month at 6 PM. Join us! The Young At Heart Book 23Club will discuss Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor.

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5:00 PM · Berkeley · 1760 7:00 PM · Belmont · The 4:30 PM · Burlingame · 4th Street · 510-525-7777 Belmont Library · 1110 1375 Burlingame Ave · 14 24 Alameda de las Pulgas 25650-685-4911 Bring the kids to commemorate · 650-591-8286 Everybody’s favorite evil feline the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther The Belmont Library presents is coming for a visit! Don’t miss King Jr. with a very special story- Annie Barrows, author of The Ivy & the awesome chance to meet Nick time featuring Caldecott winner Bean Series. Bruel, sharing the latest hilarious Kadir Nelson, illustrator of I Have a installment in his Bad Kitty series, Dream, in which Dr. King’s legend- Bad Kitty School Daze. ary speech comes alive alongside Nelson’s gorgeous paintings. INTRODUCING THE BOOK BITES READ ALOUD SERIES! Drumroll please . . . Introducing, Book Bites: Tasty Tales in Twenty! Beginning on Thursday, January 10, 2013 Laurel Village will begin our weekly twenty-minute read aloud series for newly independent readers (ages 6-8). Join us at 3:30 PM each Thursday for a fun-fi lled twenty-minute reading. Our fi rst read aloud will feature (appropriately) Tales For Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider. See you there!