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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
