Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

BOOK CLUBBERS
Thursday, March 05, 2015 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Shotgun Lovesongs
by Nickolas Butler

Can youthful friendships bear the changes caused by time and experience in the larger world? Coming back to a small town in Wisconsin will tell the tale.

 

SPINE-CRACKERS BOOK DISCUSSION
Friday, March 06, 2015 @ Harnish
Start Time: 12:30 PM
After Visiting Friends
by Michael Hainey

Years after his father’s death, Michael Hainey sets out to learn the truth about what happened the night his father was found dead of an apparent heart attack near his car on the North Side of Chicago.  This is a moving, richly detailed, well-written and often poetic tale of family secrets and legacies.

 

NITE READERS BOOK CLUB
Thursday, March 19, 2015 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 PM
The World’s Strongest Librarian
by Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne was never able to blend into the background. Even before he was formally diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome, the condition would bring chaos into his world.  Here he shows how he battled Tourette’s while shedding light on the often misunderstood affliction.

 

CLASSICS BOOK CLUB
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 @ Harnish
Start Time: 7:00 PM
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves

The emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers – Thursday, February 5th @ 7pm (Harnish)
Meets the first Thursday of each month.

China Dolls
by Lisa See

In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco’s exclusive “Oriental” nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco’s Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times their differences are pronounced, but the girls grow to depend on one another in order to fulfill their individual dreams. Then, everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the government is sending innocent Japanese to internment camps under suspicion, and Ruby is one of them. But which of her friends betrayed her?

* Spine-crackers – Friday, February 6th @ 12:30pm (Harnish)
Meets the first Friday of each month.

Longbourn
by Jo Baker

In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely upended.

* Bookalicious – Monday, February 9th @ 7pm at the Village Vintner
Meets the second Monday of each month.

A Mad, Wicked Folly
by Sharon Biggs

In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

 

 

Classics Book Club – Wednesday, February 18th @ 7pm (Harnish)
Meets the third Wednesday of each month.

Beowulf

Britain’s oldest epic brings to life the warrior named Beowulf who defeated the ogre Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon that threatened his kingdom. This work is considered by many to be one of the most important works of Old English literature.

 

 

Nite Readers – Thursday, February 19th @ 7pm (Harnish)
Meets the third Thursday of the month.

Under the Wide and Starry Sky
by Nancy Horan

Chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Stevenson too is escaping from his life, running from family pressure to become a lawyer. And so begins a turbulent love affair that will last two decades and span the world.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers – Thursday, January 8th @ 7pm (Harnish)
 Due to the New Year Holiday, Bookclubbers will meet on the second Thursday this month, instead of the usual first Thursday.

What Alice Forgot
by Liane Moriarty

Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.

 

 

* Spine-crackers – Friday, January 9th @ 10am (Harnish)
Due to the New Year Holiday, Spine-crackers will meet on the second Friday this month, instead of the usual first Friday. 

The Time Keeper
by Mitch Albom

After being punished for trying to measure God’s greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.

 

* Bookalicious – Monday, January 12th @ 7pm at the Village Vintner
Meets the second Monday of each month.

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
by Lish McBride

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

 

Nite Readers – Thursday, January 15th @ 7pm (Harnish)
Meets the third Thursday of the month.

Blood From a Stone
by Donna Leon

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. the closest witnesses are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death–fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits. Commissario Brunetti’s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? Once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake. Warned by Patta, his supervisor, to resist further involvement in the case, how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice’s illegal community?

Classics Book Club
Usually meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, January 21st @ 7pm (Harnish)

Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens

After John Harmon is murdered on his way to marry Bella Wilfer and receive a large inheritance, his father’s assistant, Nicodemus Boffin, becomes the new heir and adopts Bella, who evokes an uncommon interest from Boffin’s assistant.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers
Meets the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, December 4th @ 7pm

The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty

A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives.

 

 

* Spine-crackers
Meets the first Friday of each month.
Friday, December 5th @ 10am
(Note: Meets at EASTGATE BRANCH this month)

A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote

A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and an older childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

 

 

* Bookalicious
Meets the second Monday of each month.
Monday, December 8th @ 7pm at the Village Vintner

Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

 

 

Classics Book Club
Usually meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, December 10th @ 7pm (Harnish
(Note: meets 2nd Wednesday this month)

A Separate Peace
by John Knowles

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.

 

 

Nite Readers
Meets the third Thursday of the month.
Thursday, December 18th @ 7pm

The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey

Alaska in the 1920s is a difficult place for Jack and Mabel. Drifting apart, the childless couple discover Faina, a young girl living alone in the wilderness. Soon, Jack and Mabel come to love Faina as their own. But when they learn a surprising truth about the girl, their lives change in profound ways.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers
Meets the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, November 6th @ 7pm

Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline

The story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask. A tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship.

 

* Spine-crackers
Meets the first Friday of each month.
Friday, November 7th @ 10am

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared – Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity, suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

* Bookalicious
Meets the second Monday of each month.
Monday, November 10th @ 7pm at the Village Vintner

The Boyfriend List
by e. lockhart

A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.

 

 

Classics Book Club
Meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, November 19th @ 7pm (Harnish)

Kim
by Rudyard Kipling

Classic adventure story of Kimball O’Hara, a resourceful Irish orphan who must rely on his cunning and wit to survive after his father dies. Kim soon meets a holy man who invites him on a pilgrimage to the majestic Himalayas.

 

Nite Readers
Meets the third Thursday of the month.
Thursday, November 20th @ 7pm

The Light Between the Oceans
by M.L. Stedman

A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.

* Indicates book clubs that are lead by a staff librarian.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers
Meets the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, October 2nd @ 7pm (Meets at EASTGATE this month!)

Before I Go to Sleep
by S. J. Watson

An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.

 

 

* Spine-crackers
Meets the first Friday of each month.
Friday, October 3rd @ 10am (Meets at EASTGATE this month)

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson

Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.

* Bookalicious
Meets the second Monday of each month.
Monday, October 13th @ 7pm at the Village Vintner

Monstrous beauty
by Elizabeth Fama.

In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka’s love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester’s encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

 

 

Classics Book Club
Meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, October 15th @ 7pm (Harnish)

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Set in a strict Puritan community in 17th-century Boston, this novel tells the moving tale of an adulterous love affair and the retribution that follows.

 

 

Nite Readers

Meets the third Thursday of the month.
Thursday, October 16th @ 7pm

The Humans: A Novel
by Matt Haig

Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there is more to the human race than he suspected.

 

 

* Indicates book clubs that are lead by a staff librarian.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copies today!

* Book Clubbers
Meets the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, September 4th @ 7pm (Harnish)

One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus

A secret government programs seeks white women to marry Cheyenne Indians to help assimilate them into white society.  Mary Dodd, condemned to a mental asylum by her family, volunteers for the program because she believes this is the only way she can achieve freedom.

 

* Spine-crackers
Meets the first Friday of each month
Friday, September 5th @ 10am (Harnish)

Keepsake
by Kristina Riggle

Two sisters raised by a hoarder, deal with old hurts and resentments and the very different paths their lives have taken.  Topics addressed included hoarding and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).  Feel the real emotional power and compassion about families and their baggage.

 

* Bookalicious – For adults who enjoy reading YA Literature.
Meets the second Monday of each month at the Village Vintner Winery & Brewery. 
Monday, September 8th @ 7pm (Village Vintner)

Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

 

Classics Book Club
Meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, September 17th @ 7pm (Harnish)

Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, this semi-autobiographical novel by D.H. Lawrence shows the destructive power of love.

 

 

Nite Readers
Meets the third Thursday of the month.
Thursday, September 18th @ 7pm

The Humans: A Novel
by Matt Haig

Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there is more to the human race than he suspected.

 

 

* Indicates book clubs that are lead by a librarian.

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copy today!

* Book Clubbers
Meets the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, July 3rd @ 7pm (Harnish)

Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami

Looking back on his college days in Tokyo, Toru recalls his relationships with two very different women against a backgrop of 1960’s student protests and coming of age angst and tragedy.

 

 

* Bookalicious
For adults who enjoy reading YA Literature. Meets the second Monday of each month.
Monday, July 14th @ 7pm (Harnish)

The Girl of Fire and Thorns
by Rae Carson

A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.

 

 

Nite Readers
Meets the third Thursday of each month.
Thursday, July 17th @ 7pm (Harnish)

Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes

Louisa Clark, who has lived her entire life within the confines of the small English village where she grew up, takes a job as a companion for Will Trainer, a wealthy quadriplegic who has traveled the world. As their friendship grows, they each try to help the other see and live beyond their own limitations.

 

Classics Book Club
Meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, July 16th @ 7pm (Harnish)

Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim seeks redemption in a remote Malay settlement after his cowardly actions while serving aboard a merchant ship leave him a disgraced officer.

 

 

 

* Indicates books clubs that are lead by librarians.