Peoria Public Library - Peoria, Illinois

107 NE Monroe
Peoria, Illinois 61602-1070
1-309-497-2000

Biography/Non-fiction Book Club

The Biography and Nonfiction Book Club meets the second Sunday of each month (unless re-scheduled because of holidays/weather).  We meet at the North Branch of the Peoria Public Library, 3001 West Grand Parkway, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.  For more information, please call Roberta Koscielski at 309-497-2186.  New members are always welcome!

2013 Calendar

DATE

AUTHOR

TITLE

January 13

Stegner, Wallace

Mormon Country

February 10

McCullough, David

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

March 10

O’Connell, Robert

Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

April 14

Massie, Robert

Catherine the Great:  Portrait of a Woman

May 19*

Wilber, Del Quentin

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

June 9

Lochery, Neill

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945

July 14

Millard, Candice

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

August 11

Campbell, John

The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher from Grocer’s Daughter to Prime Minister

September 8

Kershaw, Alex

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

October 13

Eagleman, David

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

November 10

Gortemaker, Heike and Damion Searl

Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

December 8

Kempe, Frederick

Siberian Odyssey: A Voyage Into the Russian Soul