Nite Readers

Nite Readers: Rebecca

Rebecca By: Daphne Du Maurier Date: Thursday, May 16th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at […]

Book Clubs

Great Books: Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon By: Arthur Koestler Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin’s purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically […]

Book Clubs

Forever Young: Love, Hate & Other Filters

Love, Hate & Other Filters By: Samira Ahmed Date: Monday, May 13th, 2019 @Eastgate Time: 7:00pm Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there […]

Book Clubs

Spinecrackers: Manhattan Beach

Manhattan Beach By: Jennifer Egan Date: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @Harnish Time: 10:00am Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. […]

Book Clubbers: The Library Book
Book Clubbers

Book Clubbers: The Library Book

The Library Book By: Susan Orlean Date: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once […]

Cozy Corner: Murder Past Due
Cozy Corner

Cozy Corner: Murder Past Due

Murder Past Due By: Miranda James Date: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash.  He’s returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he’s entangled in a real-life thriller… A famous author […]