There will be no December meeting. Join us for our Book Club Christmas Dinner at Bella’s on December 15. For more info contact Connie at connieg@mercerlibrary.org Tuesday January 18, 2022 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING The Dilemma by B.A. Paris It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is…
Tuesday November 16, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she…
Tuesday October 19, 2021 6:30 pm The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin Zoom or In-Person Meeting The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to…
Tuesday September 21, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious…
Tuesday August 17, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land,…
Tuesday July 20, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study…
Tuesday June 15, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM and in-person MEETING Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items…
Tuesday May 18, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM and in-person MEETING The Other Mrs. is the twisty psychological thriller from Mary Kubica, which is being developed for the screen by Netflix. Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor…
Tuesday April 20, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM or in-person MEETING American Dirt is a 2020 novel by American author Jeanine Cummins, about the ordeal of a Mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the United States with her son. Oprah…
Tuesday March 16, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM MEETING No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox, as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the…