BOOK CLUBBERS
The Oregon Trail : a new American journey
By: Rinker Buck
Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00PM
Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
SPINECRACKERS
The physick book of Deliverance Dane: a novel
By: Katherine Howe
Date: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ Harnish
Start Time: 10:00AM
While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she could have imagined.
BOOKALICIOUS
By: Carrie Ryan
Date: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ Village Vintner
Start Time: 7:00PM
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
CLASSICS
Vanity fair : a novel without a hero
By: William M. Thackeray
Date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00PM
Thackeray's most well-known work, Vanity Fair is a satirical epic of love and social adventure. The story follows the trials and tribulations of two young women Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. After leaving the shelter of Miss Pinkerton's Academy, they come to Vanity Fair where the charming and amoral Becky and sweet Amelia, along with an interesting and varied cast of victims and villains, suffer through elopements and betrayals, fortunes made and lost, and battles, both military and domestic.
NIGHT READERS
By: Hannah Rothschild
Date: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00PM
When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers, all scheming to get their hands on her painting - a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called ‘The Improbability of Love’. Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but some of the darkest secrets of European history – and in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.