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Nonfiction Book Group

Nonfiction Book Group (2022-2023)

Previous Books and Meeting Dates:

APRIL 2023

MARCH 2023

FEBRUARY 2023

JANUARY 2023

DECEMBER 2022

NOVEMBER 2022

OCTOBER 2022

SEPTEMBER 2022

AUGUST 2022

Nonfiction Book Group reads Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner for its August meeting, to take place on Wed August 10th at 3pm in the library.

Long before there was a Silicon Valley in California, there was Bell Labs in New Jersey. The rollout of the Picturephone from AT&T (debuted in 1964 at the New York World’s Fair) may have been disastrous, but other innovations from Bell Labs, such as the integrated circuit, communications satellites, and cell phones, touch most everything we do today.

JULY 2022

Nonfiction Book Group reads The Pine Barrens by John McPhee for its July meeting, to take place on Wed July 13th at noon in the library. Pick up a copy of the book at the library (copies are available now).

This short book (a mere 157 pages) focuses on the history and ecology of the Pine Barrens, a beautiful, rural, and undisturbed part of the state that many have never visited.