The Friends of the Bonney Lake Library invite people in the community to share good books at Bonney Lake Pierce County Library, 18501 90th St. E.

The free discussion group, Books on Tapps, meets on the followingThursdays at 7 p.m.

March 29 – “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford

The 2012 Pierce County READS book tells a gripping account of the Japanese American internment during World War II, through the eyes and voice of a child as he matures through life.

April 26 – “The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morgan

Nell learns as an adult that she was adopted after being abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, and returns to England on a quest for answers.

May 31 – “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand.

Lt. Louis Zamperini survived when his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 1943. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

June 28 – “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women – black and white, mothers and daughters – view one another.

July 26 – “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

This American classic is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

Aug. 30 – “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach

A seagull learns about life and flight in this allegory that expresses timeless ideas about human potential.

Readers may request these and other titles through the Pierce County Library catalog, and check them out at any Pierce County Library.