Book Club
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October Book Club
Our next book club meeting will be held on Friday, October 20 at 1:30pm. This month’s selection is “Homecoming” by Kate Morton. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and…
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September Book Club
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August Book Club
Our August title is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnnie Garmus. We have copies available at the library. Stop by and pick up a copy! NATIONAL BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A delight for readers of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at…
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June Book Club
Our book club meets the third Friday of each month at 1:30pm. This month’s selection is Bad Cree by Jessica Johns.“ In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. “A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart.” —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier…
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May Book Club
May Book Club is being held on Friday, May 19, starting at 1:30pm. This month’s selection is The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donohugue. Newcomers are always welcome! “Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police,…
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March Book Club
Our next book club meeting will be held on Friday, March 17 at 1:30 p.m. New members are always welcome! Ask at the circulation desk about getting a copy of the book. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly.Polly Wister has led a different kind…
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June Book Club
Our book club meets next on Friday, June 17 at 1:30pm. This month’s selection is The Reading List, a debut novel by Sara Nisha Adams. We have some copies available at the library. Anyone is welcome! An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.…
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May Book Club
Our next book club meeting is on Friday, May 20 at 1:30pm. This month’s read is Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All The Light We Cannot See. We have lots of copies available at the library. Stop in and pick up your copy!
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February Book Club
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? … Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if…
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January Book Club
Our newest Book Club book is in! Pick up your copy at the library. “The Last House Guest is a psychological thriller set in Littleport, Maine, which doubles both as a summer vacation spot for the wealthy, and a small harbour town for the local residents. Avery, a local, is drawn into the world of wealth when she’s ‘adopted’ by Sadie Loman to be her best friend.” Read more at The Skinny.
