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You'll note in our database that a number of listings are for 'reader's circles.' These are a new kind of book group where people attend with whatever they're reading. The only structure is if participants decide to have an 'optional book.' Otherwise, everyone just brings their own books, articles, magazines, and conversation goes from there. The idea is to loosen the usual format so participants can select their own reading and attend even if they're still in the middle of a book. Conversation inevitably covers the books brought and many other subjects as well.

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Reader's Circle seeks to renew the spirit of dialogue that animated the coffeehouses of early modern England and the salons of Enlightenment France. Franklin's Junto and the Lyceums of the 19th century also suggest the tone of American life we hope to facilitate.

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Unlike some .org’s, which may in fact be for-profit businesses, Reader’s Circle is the real thing. All donations are used to support our mission: to build an inclusive community, the reading public brought together as a body instead of existing merely as an abstraction.

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Each year Reader's Circle serves 90,000 inquires for local book clubs in 5 countries. Top cities include: New York City, London, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Brooklyn, Portland, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Arlington, Houston, Austin, San Jose, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Phoenix.

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	Blood on the EarthJohn Laví In a rush one morning, a college professor drives over a boy on a bike, killing him. When the boy turns out to be the son of a mobster, the professor pays the ultimate price. He disappears, permanently. His death leads to more revenge killings. To stop them from escalating, the...
	A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frédéric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. First published in 1869, it offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a...
	The Journey of Mary / Ma LiJ. A. Graffagnino From early childhood Mary Petrovich has had visions of a girl named Ma Li Chin living in ancient China. As time passes, the images became clearer until it seemed that Ma Li was physically present, and as Mary grew, their bond became stronger. Mary's parents, a Sioux...
	The AutobiographyBenjamin Franklin Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the Autobiography within the larger history of...
	She CriesAlexandra Allred With a plot that could have easily been pulled from newspaper headlines, She Cries is both a thriller and a surprising love story that will have readers on the edge of their seats. When Kali Jorgensen is left to raise her three daughters alone after her husband is killed in the war in Afghanistan...
	Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But...
	RedwoodA. Rod Womack Redwood is a gripping true story of a once successful and popular Baltimore restaurant known for its great cuisine, vivacious musical entertainment, radiant atmosphere and memorable A-List celebrity events. From the beginning, the three young entrepreneurs worked tirelessly to...
	The Sixth ExtinctionElizabeth Kolbert Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact...
	The Keepers of MerciaJames I. Marino While Binette awaits her father in the large trade village of Riversplit, she encounters an elder who confirms scant rumors being spread by merchants that a religious legion in the far west, known as the Jebedah, have been pressing villages into its ranks through sadistic means. Stirred by the...
	A Fighting ChanceElizabeth Warren As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family’s modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a...
	A Complicated Love SongLynda Jones-Burns A captivating and complex beauty, Bettina Charles has exactly what it takes to make it big in the music industry of the 1980s—gorgeous looks, striking intelligence, and undeniable talent as a singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer. As she maneuvers to take the world by storm...
	The Essence of ChristianityLudwig Feuerbach Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his...
	Beyond a Mother's Worst NightmareKaren Chaston Losing a loved one is never easy. When it is your child, it’s all the more difficult. Parents are not supposed to outlive their children, so most are unprepared when it happens. A little part of you dies, along with your child. You’ll never really "get over" their passing, but you...
	CitizenClaudia Rankine Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home...
	Royal EntertainmentMarni Fechter When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss, she gets fired from her social services job, and no one else in the field will touch her. Enter the fabulous Charles Ribbon, premier party producer for New York’s rich and famous. Charles’s assistant is out of commission, and he...
	This Changes EverythingNaomi Klein The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political...
	Orphan in AmericaNanette L. Avery Bringing back to the twenty-first century an epic novel of substance and style, Orphan in America is a compelling fiction that follows three generations across vast distances and the impact of a dark and unfamiliar episode of America’s past; the Orphan Train. Set in the 1800s, Orphan in America...
	The SleepwalkersChristopher Clark The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a...
	Healing Your Wounded SpiritCherie Rickard The loss of a love is a nearly universal emotional crisis, whether the end is divorce, desertion of a friendship, death of a loved one or a mutually agreed-upon separation. At first, friends and family are there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but after a few months there's an...