Upcoming Events


March 19, 2012
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
(see below for details)
- Note that there is not a book discussion in February. -


About our Events

The Cascade Library's Book Discussion Group is a wonderful way to discuss books with others.  We meet on the third Monday of each month from September through May, 10am until 11am at the Library Wisner Center.  The group is informal and we welcome participation. See below for a list of books being discussed this season.

Our Used Book Sales are famous around the country!  Click on the tab at the left for more information.

Booked for Lunch hosts two book-centric speakers annually while attendees enjoy a catered lunch. 

Kids always enjoy our Early Literacy Program events centered around fostering a love for books and reading.

Finally, Community Appreciation Day is hosted annually to celebrate the library's patrons.

Book Discussion Schedule
All discussions are in the Library Wisner Center, 10am to 11.
Meetings are held the third Monday of every month (except where noted).
Join us for a friendly, informal discussion of these books!


March 19, 2012
(This book will be a two month book for February and March.)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
This riveting and enthralling family saga unfolds in Africa and America.  Doctors and patients, exile and home, this novel is an unforgettable journey into one man's life: an epic story about the power, intimacy, and beauty of healing others.  Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between a nun from India and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Siva Stone come of age in Ethiopia where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

April 16, 2012
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
This moving novel is a haunting story about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two strangers.  It is told by both of them as alternate narrators, one a recent widow from suburban London and the other, an illegal Nigerian refugee.  They have become inextricably bound through the horror imprinted during their initial encounter.
(Please bring a book that you have read and would like to suggest for inclusion in the 2012-2013 Book Discussion list to be voted on in May's meeting.)

May 21, 2012
Twin by Allen Shawn
A heartbreaking, yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism, which resulted in the early separation of two siblings.  Twin highlights the difficulties American families had in coping with autism in the 1950's. It reconstructs a parallel narrative for the siblings - who experienced such divergent fates, yet shared talents and inclinations.
(Voting will take place on the titles suggested at the April meeting for the 2012-2013 discussion season.

Also suggested for reading:
In which Brief Stories are Told
by Sterling Phillips

The Cookbook Collector
by Allegra Goodman

Mark Twain: Man in White
by Michael Sheldon

Little Women
 by Louisa May Alcott