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The Old Metairie Library’s SciFi and Fantasy Discussion Group has announced its programming for 2025. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. 

This month’s book is Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

Book: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

by David Graeber

The French Literature Discussion Group is a book club of Francophones who’ve had some basic schooling in the French language, and who’ve been to France. However, meetings are conducted in English. 

Join us for an Any Book Club. Choose any book from the genre--this month it's Children's Books--and come ready to discuss it with the group.

This month's book is The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman. 

Book: The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Old Metairie Library’s SciFi and Fantasy Discussion Group has announced its programming for 2025. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. 

This month’s book is Solito by Javier Zamora. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug! 

Book: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

by David Graeber

Join us for an Any Book Club. Choose any book from the genre--this month it's books inspired by or written about NOLA--and come ready to discuss it with the group.

The French Literature Discussion Group is a book club of Francophones who’ve had some basic schooling in the French language, and who’ve been to France. However, meetings are conducted in English. 

This month's book is The Red Palace by June Hur. 

While investigating a series of grisly murders, eighteen-year-old palace nurse Hyeon navigates royal and political intrigue and becomes entangled with a young police inspector.

Book: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

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The Old Metairie Library’s SciFi and Fantasy Discussion Group has announced its programming for 2025. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. 

This month’s book is Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

The French Literature Discussion Group is a book club of Francophones who’ve had some basic schooling in the French language, and who’ve been to France. However, meetings are conducted in English. 

Join us for an Any Book Club. Choose any book from the genre--this month it's Gothic Fiction--and come ready to discuss it with the group.

"Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974 it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon.

Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
 

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