THE LANPHER LIBRARY HOSTS A BOOK DISCUSSION ON THE THIRD TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM 6:30-8:00(ish)  THE DISCUSSIONS ARE FREE AND ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US!  COPIES OF THE BOOK ARE AVAILABLE FOR LOAN IN ADVANCE AT THE LANPHER LIBRARY AND ARE DUE BACK ON OR BEFORE THE EVENING OF THE DISCUSSION. 
Participants take turns choosing the book and facilitating the discussion.  Light refreshments are also the responsibility of the person who chose the book. 

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 6:30 
Educated,  by  Tara Westover
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard.

Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent.

When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

Past discussion titles include:
September 2018 The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
August 2018 The Girl with Seven Names, by Hyonseo Lee
July 2018 An Address in Amsterdam, by Mary Dungee Fillmore
June 2018: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
May 2018: Doc, by Mary Doria Russell
April 2018:  Maisie Dobbs, by Jaqueline Winspear
March 2018: Bread and Roses Too, by Katherine Paterson (VT READS 2018)
February 2018: Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
January 2018 Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See
Nobember 2017 A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
October 2017 Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
Septbember 2017 Transatlantic, by Colum McCann
August 2017 Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
July 2017 Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2017 Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
May 2017 A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierly
April 2017  The Grass Harp, by Truman Capote
March 2017 Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
February 2017: Brown Girl Dreaming , by Jaqueline Woodson (VT READS 2017)
December 2016/January 2017: The Thornbirds, by Colleen McCullough
November 2016: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, by Jan-Philipp Sendker
October 2016:  Not a Wasted Breath, by LaRecea Taylor Gibbs
September 2016, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, by Laurie R. King
August 2016, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Valliant
July 2016, A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Iriving
June 2016, Goodbye for Now, by Laurie Frankel
May 2016 A Slant of Light, by Jeffrey Lent
April 2016 H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
March 2016  Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton
February 2016  Three Can Keep a Secret, by Archer Mayor
January 2016, All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
December 2015, The All of It, by Jeannette Haien
November 2015 The Professor's House, by Willa Cather
October 2015: Water Witches, by Chris Bohjalian
September 2015: Naked, by David Sedaris
August 2015 Watership Down, by Richard Adams
July 2015: Postmistress, by Sara Blake
June 2015: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie (VT Reads 2015)
May 2015: October Light, by John Gardner
April 2015: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
March 2015: White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
February 2015: A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
January 2015: The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson
December 2014: Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
November 2014 The Proving Ground, by G. Bruce Knecht
October 2014: The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho
September 2014: Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
August 2014: A Stranger in the Kingdom, by Howard Frank Mosher
July 2014 Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (VT Reads 2014)
June 2014: Daisy Miller, by Henry James
May 2014: Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
April 2014: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
March 2014: Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
February 2014: The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro
January 2014: The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
December 2013: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai SiJie
November 2013: A Study in Scarlett, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
October 2013: When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
September 2013: The Last Telegraph, by Liz Trenow
August 2013: My Antonia, by Willa Cather
July 2013: Secret Daughter, by Shipli Somaya
May 2013: The Terra Cotta Dog, by Andrea Camillieri
April 2013: The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
March 2013: Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
February 2013: Coyote Wisdom, by Lewis Mahl Madrone
January 2013: The Pilot's Wife, by  Anita Shreve
2012 Titles: 
Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Wolf
Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Bull Run, by Paul Fliechman
Skinwalkers, by Tony Hillerman
The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy