DOVER - The Dover Public Library's Chautauqua Book Club is announcing its upcoming discussion titles and dates. 

The Chautauqua Book Club is one of the oldest continuous book discussion groups in the U.S. The local chapter meets the last Thursday of each month at noon at the Dover Public Library, and new members are always welcome.

The next meeting will January 30th at noon to discuss Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood." Other upcoming dates and titles include:

• February 27: "My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel" by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• March 26: "The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• April 30: "Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore" by Elizabeth Rush
• May 28: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel" by Kim Michele Richardson

For more information or to reserve a copy of one of the books, call the Dover Public Library at 330-343-6123 or visit DoverLibrary.org.

About this month's book

Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

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