March Book Discussion
Come join us for a great book discussion Tuesday March 12th at 4:00. We will be discussing the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Books still available so stop by the Library and check one out so you can join us!
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Good Reads – January 2017
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:oo PM A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric…
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Tuesday September 20, 2016 From Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier. 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their…
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Tuesday August 16, 2016 7:00 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Hoffman unfolds the intriguing story of…
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison
Tuesday July 19, 2016 7:00 With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. Evison has crafted…
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Tuesday June 21, 2016 7:00 From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. Larson delivers a riveting account of one of the most tragic events of WWI. The fact a German U-boat sank the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland in…
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
Tuesday May 17, 2016 7:00 From the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the…
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Tuesday April 19, 2016 7:00 Tom Sherbourne is a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a tiny island a half day’s boat journey from the coast of Western Australia. When a baby washes up in a rowboat, he and his young wife Isabel decide to raise the child as their own.…
Circling the Sun by Paula McClain
Tuesday March 15, 2016 7:00 Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman—Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle…
After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman
Tuesday February 16, 2016 7:00 Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind. Join Mercer…