The Dreamers By Karen Thompson Walker Tuesday July 16, 2019 7:00PM One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the…
The Astronaut Wives Club By Lily Koppel Tuesday June 18, 2019 7:00 pm Join us in kicking off our Adult Summer Reading Program “A Universe of Stories” celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. This book tells the story of the women behind the spacemen, from Project…
Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline Tuesday May 21, 2019 7:00 pm Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck or chance. Would…
Carnegie’s Maid By Marie Benedict Tuesday April 16, 2019 7:00PM Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She’s not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh’s grandest households. She’s a poor farmer’s daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her…
The Dream Daughter By Diane Chamberlain TUESDAY March 19, 2019 7:00PM When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done…
The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian Tuesday February 19, 2019 7:00 PM A powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. … Afraid…
The Great Alone By Kristin Hannah TUESDAY January 15, 2019 7:00PM Kristin Hannah’s vivid depiction of a struggling family begins as a young father and POW returns from Vietnam, suffering from PTSD. The Allbright family, barely making ends meet in 1974, moves from Seattle to the untamed wilderness of Kaneq,…
IN The MIDST OF WINTER BY ISABEL ALLENDE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2018 7:00PM In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a…
Young Jane Young By Gabrielle Zevin Tuesday October 16, 2018 7:00 pm Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light,…
The Dry By Jane Harper Tuesday September 18, 2018 7:00 pm A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in…
