The Oysterville Sewing Circle By Susan Wiggs Tuesday March 17, 2020 A searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time—domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She’s come home.…
Evvie Drake Starts Over By Linda Holmes Tuesday February 18, 2020 7:00 pm Evvie Drake has spent her whole life in Calcasset, Maine, and doesn’t feel as sad about her widowhood as she believes she should—possibly because she was packing up to leave her husband when she got the call…
NO MEETING DECEMBER 17 – CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR BOOK CLUBS Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center Tuesday January 20, 2020 7:00 pm Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair share of them,…
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek By Kim Michele Richardson Tuesday November 19, 2019 7:00 pm The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything―everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary…
The Handmaid’s Tale By Margaret Atwood Tuesday October 15, 2019 7:00 pm In celebration of the recently released sequel, The Testaments, we are reading this modern day classic. In the dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the…
INHERITANCE By Dani Shapiro Tuesday September 17, 2019 7:00 In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the…
The Glass Ocean By Beatriz Williams Lauren Willig Karen White Tuesday August 20, 2019 7:00 pm The lives and loves of three remarkable women—two in the past, one in the present—and the tragic final voyage of the HMS Lusitania. From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten…
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…
