WHEN: Bimonthly • Third Thursday of the Month • 7 PM
WHERE: The Glenview Public Library
HOW: Just drop in. New members are always welcome.

Are you a fan of nonfiction? Do you like biography, memoirs, true crime, political analysis, history, business, self-help and travel or just enjoy nonfiction that reads like a novel? Explore intriguing nonfiction selections with lively group discussion. Stop by on a book-by-book basis or savor the series. Light refreshments served.

Book selections are available two months before each session at the Reader Services Desk.

January 19
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks, known by scientists as HeLa, was a poor Southern African American tobacco farmer, yet her cells— taken by scientists without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.

March 15
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. In a vibrant study of Paris in the 1920s, Hemingway talks, with humor and affection, of the five years he and his wife spent in France, sharing portraits of such fellow expatriates as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein.

May 17
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, Gladwell builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky." Gladwell discounts individual merit to explore how culture, circumstance, timing, birth, and luck account for success.

July 19
Bossypants by Tina Fey. From growing up in Pennsylvania to doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey writes of the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, and laughs about it with wit and candor.

September 20
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson. Michael May, a man blinded by a chemical explosion at the age of three, goes on to lead a successful life as a CIA analyst, champion skier, entrepreneur, and family man, and is offered a rare chance to see once again through risky, cutting-edge stem-cell transplant surgery.

November 15
Just Kids by Patti Smith. At 21, Smith leaves Philadelphia for Brooklyn where she meets Robert Mapplethorpe, a young man who changes her life. First lovers and then lifelong friends, the journey towards fame is chronicled with tenderness, everyday details, and love.