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Book Discussion

The Webster Groves Public Library Book Discussion Group will meet on the first Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. Upcoming books will be :

If you prefer a daytime group...

Webster University holds a bi-monthly book discussion group, and anyone is invited. The meetings are held at noon in the conference room of Emerson Library (101 Edgar Road), and participants are invited to bring lunch. Lively discussions are moderated by different members of the group, sometimes including University faculty members who offer added insight into the works discussed. In the coming months they will read :

September 22 : The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
November 3 : The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

(Please note : These afternoon discussion groups are solely a function of Webster University, and have no affiliation with the Webster Groves Public Library. Please contact Webster University's Emerson Library with any questions.)

What's Hot

Here is a list of August's most requested books (previous month's position in parentheses) :

1. (2) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski	2. (9) Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
3. (6) Killer View by Ridley Pearson	4. (4) The Beach House by Jane Green
5. (3) When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris	6. (1) Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
7. (11) Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin	8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
9. The Shack by William P. Young	10. (7) Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
11. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs	12. (5) Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger

Book Awards News

Pulitzer Prize

Below are the books which were awarded 2008 Pulitzer Prizes.

Fiction	Drama
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	August : Osage County by Tracy Letts
History	Biography
What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe	Eden's Outcasts : The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
Poetry	Poetry
Time and Materials : Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass	Failure by Philip Schultz
General Non-Fiction
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer

National Book Awards

Below are the winners of the 2007 National Book Awards, which were announced November 14, 2007.

Fiction	Non-fiction
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson	Legacy of Ashes : The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Poetry	Young People's Literature
Time and Materials : Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Booker Prize

The winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize was announced on October 16. This year, the prize went unexpectedly to underdog Anne Enright for her novel The Gathering.

The Gathering by Anne Enright

Nobel Prize

On October 11, British author Doris Lessing was announced as the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Listed below are some of her more recent works. Many others are also available from her nearly-sixty-year career.

The Cleft	The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
The Grandmothers	The Sweetest Dream