VB Reads... Engaged Citizens Book Group

Read and discuss a variety of books exploring how to create a more civil and engaged community.Join Mary Dumas on the third Wednesday of the month from noon to 1:30. Authors DO NOT attend. Meetings are in the Readings Gallery -- brown bag lunches are encouraged. Anyone interested in exploring their role as an engaged citizen is welcome.

You can find out more about the Engaged Citizens Book Group and see past books that they've read by clicking on the attachments below.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)

By Kay Redfield Jamison

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780679763307
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 1/1995

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Wednesday, February 15, noon

This book explores the powerful domain of bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed. This candid memoir reveals the author's insights as one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness and from her own direct experiences struggling firsthand with the condition. This deeply powerful book has both transformed and saved lives.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9780679763888
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 10/2011

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Wednesday, March 21, noon

This epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.

Jayber Crow (Paperback)

By Wendell Berry

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9781582431604
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Counterpoint, 8/2001

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Wednesday, April 18, noon

For thirty-nine years Wendell Berry has brought us stories from the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky. The latest, Jayber Crow, is the story of a man's love for his community and his abiding and unrequited love for Mattie Chatham, a good woman who had too early made one bad mistake. Sent to an orphanage at the age of ten, Jayber grows up knowing of loneliness and want, and learns how to be a watchful observer of human goodness and frailty. With the flood of 1937 he returns to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Slowly,patiently, the observer becomes participant.

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Paperback)

By Margaret J. Wheatley

$20.95

ISBN-13: 9781576753446
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 9/2006

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Wednesday, May 16, noon

This updated classic explores the changing role of leadership given the free-flowing nature of information, power of networks, and nature of chaos within natural and built organizational structures. With examples from diverse organizations on five continents, Wheatley provides insights on how chaos and connection is changing the ways we approach organizational behavior, management, and leadership.