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Stock up on books for the winter!

We’d love to help you stock up on books for the winter from our used book sale room! Hardbacks are $1 and paperbacks are 50¢, or you can fill a bag for just $5. We’ve got children’s books, adult paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction, all looking for a new home. http___makeagif.com__media_4-23-2014_K2Rur_

Discussion Questions for The Poisoner’s Handbook

When it comes to the discussion questions, please keep in mind that they’re only a guide – you won’t lose points for not answering all of them, from straying from the topic, etc.  Here are a few examples relating to The Poisoner’s Handbook (the June read for the Non-fiction book club)…

1. Did the title, subtitle and cover accurately represent the book? Was the book what you expected?
2. Did you know anything about the time period before reading the book? Did you learn anything new?
3. What was the most interesting part of the book?
4. Who did you find more interesting, chief medical examiner Charles Norris or toxicologist Alexander Gettler?
5. How did you find the pace of the book? Did the author’s method of unfolding the
events make you feel you were living through the era?

We’d love to have you join us in this “virtual discussion group” – if you’ve read the book, please feel free to post a reply with your responses!