BOOK CLUBBERS
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
By: Ransom Riggs
Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 pm
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
SPINE CRACKERS
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Date: Friday, February 3rd, 2017 @ Harnish
Start Time: 10:00 am
Gilbert offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives; uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us.
BOOKALICIOUS
By: Nicola Yoon
Date: Monday, February 13th, 2017 @ Village Vintner
Start Time: 7:00 pm
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
CLASSICS
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
Date: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 pm
A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens at Camelot in A.D. 528. He saves himself from prison and death by posing as a magician and becoming minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts to help out the peasants, he meets opposition.
NIGHT READERS
By: Steven Galloway
Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2017 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 pm
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.