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Book Discussion Events

Tuesday, July 01
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, July 15
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Please join us for a discussion of The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts. In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an... Read More
Tuesday, July 15
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Please join us for a discussion of The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts. In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an... Read More
Tuesday, August 05
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, August 19
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join the group in the discussion of ... Read More
Tuesday, August 19
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join the group in the discussion of The Life We Bury by Alan Eskens.  College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography... Read More
Tuesday, September 02
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, September 16
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan. For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story—one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it—that... Read More
Tuesday, September 16
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan. For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story—one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it—... Read More
Tuesday, October 07
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, October 21
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd. A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and... Read More
Tuesday, October 21
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd. A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and... Read More
Tuesday, November 04
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, November 18
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at... Read More
Tuesday, November 18
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of... Read More
Tuesday, December 02
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome to our monthly mystery club! Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss a new selection. We will read a variety of mystery stories throughout the year: thrillers, whodunits, cozies, police procedurals, and even books... Read More
Tuesday, December 16
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of Orbital by Samantha Harvey. A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space.  Copies will be... Read More
Tuesday, December 16
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of... Read More
Tuesday, January 20
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Women by Kristin Hannah.  Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern... Read More
Tuesday, January 20
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of ... Read More
Tuesday, February 17
4:30pm - 5:30pm
"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." —New York Times Book Review Copies will be available for checkout at the adult circulation desk.  This... Read More
Tuesday, February 17
6:30pm - 7:30pm
"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." —New York Times Book Review Copies will be available for checkout at the adult circulation desk.  This... Read More
Tuesday, March 17
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of Pack Up the Moon by Kristan Higgins. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job as a scientist, his small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness... Read More
Tuesday, March 17
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of Pack Up the Moon by Kristan Higgins. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job as a scientist, his small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness... Read More
Tuesday, April 21
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.  After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a... Read More
Tuesday, April 21
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.  After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a... Read More
Tuesday, May 19
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.  Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer,... Read More
Tuesday, May 19
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a discussion of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.  Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer,... Read More