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VIRTUAL BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB |
| This club is hosted on a Zoom Meeting during the lunch hour. Participants will join to discuss new titles each month and all are encouraged to enjoy their lunch too. | |
"The Underground Railroad" by Colson WhiteheadWednesday, August 4, at NoonSummary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Place Item On Hold Register to Attend Online Starting 07/07/21 | |
"News of the World" by Paulette JilesWednesday, September 1 at NoonSummary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Place Item On Hold Register to Attend Online Starting 08/04/21 | |
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil GaimanWednesday, October 6 at NoonSummary: It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. Place Item On Hold Register to Attend Online Starting 09/01/21 | |
"Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" by Gail HoneymanWednesday, November 3 at NoonSummary: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Place Item On Hold Register to Attend Online Starting 10/06/21 | |
"Skipping Christmas" by John GrishamWednesday, December 1 at NoonSummary: Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. Place Item On Hold Register to Attend Online Starting 11/03/21 | |
COVER-TO-COVER BOOK CLUB |
| Join the library’s monthly book club discussion group for avid adult readers in the community. We meet on the third Thursday evenings of each month to discuss bestsellers, fiction, biographies, nonfiction, classics, and more. Join us at our next session. | |
Personal ChoiceThursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:00PM | |
"The Library" by Susan OrleanThursday, September 16 at 6:00PMSummary: On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Place Item On Hold | |
"Ordinary Grace" by William Kent KruegerThursday, October 21 at 6:00PMSummary: Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community. Place Item On Hold | |
"84 Charing Cross Road" by Helen HanffThursday, November 18 at 6:00PMSummary: This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Place Item On Hold | |