OWL has both Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Discussion Groups that are open to all! Come to one or all meetings. Books are available for check out at OWL.
Non-Fiction Discussion Group
When: Second Thursday of each month from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Where: Meeting will be held In the Library’s Jamie Gagarin Community Room.
Staff Contact: Olivia DeFiore
Selection List for 2024–25
July 11
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street by Neil Barofsky
The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts in 2008 served Wall Street at the expense of the
public. The book reveals how our political system is captive to Wall Street and why the too-big-to-fail
banks are bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. The Dodd-Frank bill allowed banks to
grow larger while retaining smaller capital cushions. Moderated by Jeff
August 8
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad
Nadia, who lived in a village in Northern Iraq, was 21 when Islamic State militants massacred her village.
Nadia was forced to see her mother and brothers marched to their deaths. Nadia was traded from one
soldier to another each night and raped. She managed, after many rapes, an escape through the streets
of Mosul. It is a testament to the human will to live. We see both the horrors of war and the kindness of
people. Moderated by Jeff
Fiction Discussion Group
When: Second Thursday of each month from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Where: Meeting will be held In the Library’s Jamie Gagarin Community Room.
Staff Contact: Olivia DeFiore
Selection List for 2024–25
July 11
Trust by Hernan Diaz
You can’t “trust” this novel – and that’s a very good thing. The story is primarily about a very rich man
and the stock market crash of 1929. Trust contains four distinct books in which different characters
provide conflicting accounts of the financier and his wife. The couple are secretive; the husband has new
money, the wife has an old name. Their fortune grows in spite of – or perhaps because of – the 1929
stock market crash. Moderated by Laura S.
August 8
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Set against the hot, tumultuous months when Boston's desegregation of its public schools exploded in
violence, this book is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait
of the dark heart of American racism. Moderated by Cindy