Welcome to RSA Bookgroups
The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system. RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite
Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki. Please post your library's schedule if it's available. Thanks!
PLEASE NOTE: CURRENTLY, THIS PAGE IS FOR 2016.
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
January 14th A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
February 11th In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
March 10th My Antonia by Willa Cather
April 14th Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
May 12th My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Backman, Fredrik
June 9th After You by JoJo Moyes
July 14th Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
August 11th
January 2016: Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
February 2016: King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
March 2016: Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
April 2016: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
May 2016: Someone by Alice McDermott
June 2016:The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
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Blessing Health Professions Library in Quincy
Contact us at 217-228-5520 x. 6970. Melissa DeVerger
January 2016: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
February 2016: The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
March 2016: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
April 2016: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
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For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library (book club webpage)
January 25 - The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
February 22 - Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin
March 21 - The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith
April 25 - A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan
May 23 - Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
June 27 - A Bone to Pick, by Charlaine Harris
July 25 - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Keysey
August 22 - The Returned, by Jason Mott
September 26 - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
October 24 - The Watchers, by Dean Koontz
November 28 - West with the Night, by Beryl Markham
December 19 - Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Newly formed Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Harra Reading Room at the Library.
January The Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
February Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand
March The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
April The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
May I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Musings on Main – Titles for 2016
January – Our Souls at Night |
Kent Haruf |
February – Seven Women and the secret Of Their Greatness |
Eric Mataxas |
March - Empty Mansions |
Bill Dedman |
April – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
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Robin Sloan |
May – Cruel Harvest |
Fran Elizabeth Grubb |
June - Take This Bread |
Sara Miles |
July – Traveling With Pomegranates |
Sue Monk Kidd |
August – The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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Jonas Jonasson |
September – River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard |
October – No book choice / potluck at Maple Lawn/ choose 2017 titles |
November – After You |
Jojo Moyes |
December – A Highland Christmas |
M.C. Beaton |
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175309-245-2175
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm
Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm
To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm
Galesburg Public Library
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)
January - Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman
February - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
March - Boom, Bust, Exodus by Chad Broughton (Big Read tie-in)
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
May – Saving Simon by Jon Katz
June – Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder
July – Fully Alive by Timothy Shriver
August – Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
September – The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry
October – Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January - The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne Cavelos
February - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
March - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
May - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
June - The Infinite Arena edited by Terry Carr
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
February -Your Water Foot Print: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products by Stephen Leahy
March - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
April - Planet Taco by Jeffrey Pilcher (Big Read tie-in)
May - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
June - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Turning Pages Book Club
Jan-Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee plus movie-To Kill A Mockingbird
Feb-The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
March-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
April-Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
May-The Only Kayak by Kim Heacox
June-Biography of choice
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 14 years in January. We meet once a month at our branch library. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections. The past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting. Here is our list for 2016.
MONTH READING DISCUSSING
Jan Finding Jake, by Bryan Reardon Feb 1st
Feb Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James Mar 7th
Mar The Enemy, by Lee Childs Apr 4th
Apr Killing Kennedy, by Bill O’Reilly May 2nd
May Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah June 6th
June The Girl On The Train, by Paula Hawkins July 7th
July Sweet Salt Air, by Barbara Delinsky Aug 1st
Aug The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton Sept 8th
Sept The Silent Wife, by A.S.A. Harrison Oct 3rd
Oct Gray Mountain, by John Grisham Nov 7th
Nov The Christmas Wedding, by James Patterson Dec 5th
Dec Knit The Season, by Kate Jacobs Jan 5th
Lansing Public Library "Avid Reads" Discussion Group (15th year). We meet the first Thursday each month at 6:30 p.m.
January 7 Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
February 4 Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
March 3 All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
April 7 An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
May 5 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
June 2 Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Riffka Brunt
July 7 Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
August 4 Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
September 1 Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlane
October 6 Defending Jacob by William Landay
November 3 Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2016(Our 13th year!)
January 25
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Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
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Skloot, Rebecca
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February 29
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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Backman, Fredrik
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March 28
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Everything I Never Told You
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Ng, Celeste
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April 25
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Larson, Erik
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May 30
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The Martian
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Weir, Andy
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June 27
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Some Luck
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Smiley, Jane
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July 25
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What Alice Forgot
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Moriarty, Liane
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August 29
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Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
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Hobbs, Jeff
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September 26
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Shoemaker’s Wife
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Trigiani, Adriana
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October 31
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Wright Brothers
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McCullough, David
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November 28
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Doerr, Anthony
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December 12th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2016
& get our new list for 2017
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Bookgroup blog is at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great Reads
Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. (November is a first Wednesday due to the library's closing for Veteran's Day.) The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 13 |
Deep Down Dark
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Hector Robar |
February 10
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The House of Special Purpose |
John Boyne
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March 9
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Bill Bryson
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April 13 |
Transatlantic |
Colum McCann |
May 11
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My Notorious Life
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Kate Manning
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Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Mystery Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 27 |
Blood Hina |
Naomi Hirahara |
February 24 |
New Tricks |
David Rosenfelt |
March 23 |
March Violets |
Philip Kerr |
April 27 |
The Circular Staircase |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
May 25 |
North of Nowhere |
Steve Hamilton |
Patron-run book clubs.
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles but are not directly sponsored by our library.
Book Club 1
This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.
Book Club 2
Group usually meets on a Monday roughly every six weeks and selects the next title on their meeting dates. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a title.
Book Club 3
This group meets on the second Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with other groups. The group requests 9 titles for each discussion. The majority of selections for this group are borrowed in large print format to accommodate more seasoned readers from a local nursing home.
2016 Selections for Book Club 3
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 8, 2016
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TBD Season-related title |
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There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so I am usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long they may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests.
When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.
We are in the middle of a construction project. With such a small local collection available, we are not in a position to loan right now. We look forward to resuming loans to other libraries for book clubs and other purposes when the project is complete, though.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
2016
January 21st - River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
February 18th - Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
March 17th - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
April 21st - Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel by J. Ryan Stradal
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
2016 NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal
Contact Pixie for more information: pfreymann at normalpl.org
2016
January: The Husband's Secret
February: The Tiger's Wife
March: I Am the Cheese
April: Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
May: Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie King
June: The Storied Life of A.J. Firkry by Garielle Zevin
July: Astronaut’s Wives Club by by Lily Koppel
August: Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb
Sept: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
October:Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Nov: We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
January: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
February: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
March: True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
April: Storm Clouds Rolling In by Ginny Dye
May: Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner
June: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
July: The Thirteeth Tale by Diane Setterfield
August: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
September: Sycamore Row by John Grisham
October: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
November: Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews
December: No Meeting No Meeting
All are welcome
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
January |
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend by Susan Orlean
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February |
Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills |
March |
Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian |
April
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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton |
May |
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
June |
Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (tentative) |
Meet at Speer Bank Community Center 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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