FOR RELEASE: September 9, 2009
(TROY,
MI) – The Troy Public
Library’s new non-fiction book group, As a Matter of Fact, will be reading and
discussing historian Stephen B. Oates’ book, Abraham Lincoln, The Man Behind the Myths,
on Wednesday, September 16, at 7 pm
in the Library’s Meeting Room. 2009
marks the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.
Tim
Koerner, retired history instructor at OCC, will
moderate the discussion. Books can be borrowed from the Adult Services
Reference Desk during regular library hours. Just ask a librarian.
The
mission of this new book group is to serve a highly diverse Troy Public Library
non-fiction reading community by providing a forum for sharing of ideas, views,
and opinions in the pursuit of intellectual inquiry and deeper community and
cultural understanding. Various opinions are encouraged and respected.
The
group will be reading The Skeptical
Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg on November 18
and those books will also be available at the main Reference Desk in Adult
Services starting in September.
To
register for the non-fiction book group, visit www.libcoop.net/troy and click
Program Registration. Interested readers can also register by phone at
248.524.3542. The Troy Public Library is located at 510 West Big Beaver
Road.
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