The Fairborn Classic Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fairborn library.
For additional information, please contact Sue Takacs (sujtak@sbcglobal.net) at (937) 878-4358.
Upcoming Discussions
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December 3, 2008 - 7 p.m. |
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Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Stevens, an impeccable, quintessential English butler, embarks on a motoring trip through the West Country, on an odyssey that evokes disturbing memories of his thirty years of service to Lord Darlington and of the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. |
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The Sign of the Four
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Holmes and Watson make the acquaintance of beautiful Miss Mary Morstan, a woman with a strange story. Holmes is intrigued, but Watson falls in love. |
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February 4, 2009 - 7 p.m. |
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Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
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This is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and first major literary success. After an unfortunate marriage to Sergeant Troy and an affair with Farmer Boldwood, Bathsheba Everdene finally becomes the wife of the man who has always loved her. |
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The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
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Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil. |
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. |
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