THERE WILL BE NO MEETING OF BASED ON THE BOOK ON THE FIRST THURSDAY OF JULY DUE TO THE JULY 4TH HOLIDAY. Beginning Thursday, August 1, Mercer County Library offers a book club with a very different style! We choose a theme for the meeting, YOU choose the book…
The Scent of Rain and Lightning By Nancy Pickard Thursday June 6, 2019 One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since…
Big Little Lies By Liane Moriarty Thursday May 2, 2019 7:00 Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal…A murder…a tragic accident…or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each…
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Thursday April 4, 2019 7:00 In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the…
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott Thursday March 7, 2019 7:00 Let’s celebrate the 150th anniversary of this beloved classic, at once a lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life and a feminist novel about young women defying society’s expectations. Then watch the 2018 movie, a modern retelling of LITTLE…
The Yellow Birds By Kevin Powers Thursday February 7, 2019 7:00 Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. Bartle (21) and Murph (18) navigate the terrors of the war under the command of the…
The Bridge By Karen Kingsbury Thursday January 3, 2019 7:00 The Bridge, along with prequel The Beginning, is a heartwarming story of two couples who find love in a bookstore and experience the sort of miracle that can only happen at Christmastime. Kingsbury has written a modern-day classic with…
Same Kind of Different as Me By Ron Hall and Denver Moore Thursday December 6, 2018 7:00 Based on the bestselling inspiring true story of international art dealer Ron Hall, who befriends a homeless man in hopes of saving his struggling marriage to Debbie, a woman whose dreams will…
Every Secret Thing By Laura Lippman Thursday November 1, 2018 7:00 From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence. Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot October 4, 2018 7:00 A journalist named Rebecca Skloot recounts learning about an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951 of cervical cancer, but whose cancerous cells became the first immortal human cell line, called HeLa. The…