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  Book Groups 
CITYWIDE READS PROGRAM

The Citywide Reads program encourages people who live, work in or visit Santa Monica to read the same book and come together to discuss it in book clubs and other special events held citywide. 

FAIRVIEW BRANCH LITERATURE GROUP

Meets the second Saturday of every month at 11:00 a.m. in the community room, 2101 Ocean Park Boulevard.

August 9: Midaq Alley, Naguib Mahfouz.

MONTANA AVENUE BRANCH BOOK GROUP

Discusses both fiction and nonfiction and meets the third Wednesday of the month, at 7:00 p.m. in the community room, 1704 Montana Avenue.

August 20:
  March, by Geraldine Brooks

MONTANA MYSTERY BOOK GROUP

Discusses mysteries and thrillers and meets the second Wednesday of the month, at 7:00 p.m. in the community room, 1704 Montana Avenue.

August 13: 
Bethelem Road and The Face of the Stranger, by Anne Perry

OCEAN PARK BRANCH BOOK GROUP

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 11:00 a.m. in the downstairs community room, 2601 Main Street.

August 2:  Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood
September 6:  The Gathering, by Anne Enright
October 4:  Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange

OCEAN PARK "HOT TOPICS" BOOK GROUP

Meets the third Saturday of the month at 2:00 p.m. in the downstairs community room, 2601 Main Street.

August 16:
  Mujaan  (The Craftsman)  by Chris Mckee
September 13:  The Biblical World, an Illustrated Atlas by Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts


 

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