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Join a Book Club!

The Livermore Public Library currently hosts four bookclubs:
  • The Science Fiction Book Club, Livermore Public Library’s newest book discussion group, provides something for everyone, regardless of whether you are a fan of hard science fiction, epic fantasy, or something in between. 
  • The We're Talkin' Books! Club is a member-centered book group led by a small group of book club veterans, with reading selections based on member recommendations and consensus. Their group-managed webpage has further information.
  • The Political Issues Book Club reads books about issues and trends that are driving current affairs in both the national and international arenas.  Topics that have been covered include politics, governance, economics, military affairs, history, sociology, science, the climate, and religion.
  • The Good Reads Book Club – American Heroines in Fiction (formerly Reading Across the Map Book Club) does not meet over the summer (May 23 is the last meeting before the summer), but returns every fall with more great reading adventures!

The book clubs are run by library volunteers and new members are always welcome.

Future Book Club Meetings:

Tuesday May 28, 2013
7:00 PMPolitical Issues Book Club
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown
What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by scarcity and food nationalism?
Brown outlines the political implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing countries in Africa and elsewhere as well as the world’s shrinking buffers against poor harvests. With wisdom accumulated over decades of tracking agricultural issues, Brown exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the world is facing.
Thursday June 6, 2013
7:00 PMWe’re Talkin’ Books! Club
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with National Book Award Winner The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
Riveting and suspenseful, The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
Tuesday June 25, 2013
7:00 PMPolitical Issues Book Club
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre

Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, Ben Goldacre puts the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
‘Bad Pharma’ is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them.
Tuesday July 23, 2013
7:00 PMPolitical Issues Book Club
The featured book will be determined.