Aglaura Public Library

Welcome to the home of the Pine Barren Poets! Our members meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month to discuss books. We meet at noon for light refreshments. Our discussion begins at 12:30 and lasts approximately 2 hours.

Meetings are held in the homes of our members. Please refer to the book list available at the Aglaura Public Library at the circulation desk to find out the next meeting date and book to be discussed!

In 2006, the Pine Barren poets are reading "19th Century American Works You Studied in High School":

January: Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (1868)
February: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter (1850)
March: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
April: Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
May: Edgar Allan Poe - Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
June: Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (1898)
July: Herman Mellville - Moby Dick (1851)
August: James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
September: Kate Chopin - The Awakening (1899)
October: Henry David Thoreau - Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover edition) (1854)
November: Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
December: Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (1891)

Book Club Officers:
Co-President: Samuel Kwan
Co-President: Barbara Hayes
Secretary: Mavis Thiemann
Social Director: Georgia Cutwater

Local literature:
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck
A Pine Barrens Odyssey by Howard Boyd
More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck
Devil In The Backyard by W.J. Keeler
Jersey Devil by James McCloy
Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil by James McCloy

Last year's books ("Modern Classics"):
Cryptonomicon, by Neil Stephenson
Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
A Boy's Life, by Robert McCammon
The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
The World According to Garp, by John Irving

Previous books included:
Favorite Folktales From Around The World edited by Jane Yolen
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Poet In Exile by Ray Manzarek
Figures of Earth, A Comedy of Appearances by James Branch Cabell
Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit
Once and Future Myths by Phil Cousineau
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
At the Bottom of the Garden by Diane Purkiss
Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein
The Fairies by Suze Scalora

At the request of the librarian, the discussion board has been removed because too many people were using it instead of talking about books in real life!