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The Full STEAM Ahead Book Club usually meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Tipsy Bean in College Station. This book club is for adults and is led by Jessica. The April 2020 meeting will take place via Zoom. Contact Jessica at jonesj@bryantx.gov for more information or to receive an invite (required). This club will focus on books that deal with issues in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts. This could mean climate fiction, post-apocalyptic novels, and more! Please note that, although this club is led by a Larry J. Ringer Library librarian, it is being held at The Tipsy Bean, located at 750 William D. Fitch Pkwy in College Station. This club is currently meeting over Zoom. Contact Jessica for a Zoom invite (required).
Next Book (VIRTUAL MEETING, contact Jessica for invite)
- July 21, 2020 – Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich
Upcoming Meetings & Books
- August 18, 2020 – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- September 15, 2020 – Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Previous Book Selections
- June 16, 2020 – Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- May 26, 2020 – Dune by Frank Herbert – special meeting, rescheduled from March
- May 2020 – The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- April 2020 – Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- March 2020 – CANCELLED (library programs cancelled due to coronavirus concerns), contact Jessica to find out if Dune by Frank Herbert will be rescheduled
- February 2020 – Three short stories by various authors that can be read for free online or found in short story collections that can be checked out:
- “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (in the short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, and available to read free online at https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person)
- “Especially Heinous” by Carmen Maria Machado (in the short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, and available to read free online at http://theamericanreader.com/especially-heinous-272-views-of-law-order-svu/)
- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (in the short story collection, The Lottery and Other Stories, and available to read free online at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery)
- January 2020 – Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way by David Barrie
- December 2019 – December meeting cancelled; book moved to January 2020
- November 19, 2019 – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- October 15, 2019 – Langford’s Leap by Ted Boone (local author attended and discussed his book)
- September 17, 2019 – Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- August 20, 2019 – Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
- July 16, 2019 – The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- June 18, 2019 – Semiosis by Sue Burke
- May 21, 2019 – Meeting cancelled, book moved to July
- April 16, 2019 – Patient H. M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
- March 19, 2019 – Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- February 19, 2019 – I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- January 15, 2019 – Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- December 18, 2018 – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- November 20, 2018 – Circe by Madeline Miller
- October 16, 2018 – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- September 18, 2018 – Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- August 21, 2018 – Sourdough by Robin Sloan
- July 17, 2018 – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- June 19, 2018 – Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
- May 15, 2018 – Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
- April 17, 2018 – Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- March 20, 2018 – The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
- February 2018 – Artemis by Andy Weir
- January 2018 – Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- December 2017 – Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- November 2017 – The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- October 2017 – South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
- September 2017 – Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
