Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Smoke Gets In Your Eyesby Caitlin Doughty“Part memoir, part exposé of the death industry, and part instruction manual for aspiring morticians. First-time author Doughty has written an attention-grabbing book that is sure to start some provocative discussions. Fans of Mary Roach’s Stiff and anyone […]
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 […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! One Kick: A Novelby Chelsea Cain“Kick Lannigan survived being kidnapped as a child. Now, at twenty-one, determined never to be a victim again, she has reinvented herself. Martial arts and weapons handling are just a few of the skills she has learned over the […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Landline by Rainbow Rowell “Landline explores the delicate balance women make between work and family, considering the tradeoffs and pain. Rowell has a special gift for offering incredible insights into ordinary life. Never heavy-handed, Rowell’s writing is delivered with humor and grace. I finish […]
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 […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Elizabeth is Missing: A Novel by Emma Healey “Maude sinks into a confusing world in this gripping psychological mystery written in the voice of an aging woman with Alzheimer’s. She can’t remember what she’s doing or where she is, but she is obsessed with […]
After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story by Michael Hainey Genre: Memoir Michael Hainey has always been haunted by his father’s death. A seasoned journalist like his father before him, he knows intuitively that the facts just don’t add up with the story he was told as a kid. An obituary he discovers as a teenager reveals that his father died […]
Book ClubbersMeets the first Thursday of each month.Thursday, June 5th @ 7pm (Harnish) Girl in Translation Kwok, Jean When young Kimberly Chang emigrates from Hong Kong with her mother, she uses her “talent for school” to escape the confines of a freezing Brooklyn apartment and the harsh working conditions of a Chinatown sweatshop. Spine-crackers Meets the first Friday of each […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! We Were Liars by E. Lockhart “This brilliant and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a prestigious family living on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Full of love, lies, secrets, no shortage of family dysfunction, and a shocking twist that you […]
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes Realistic Fiction After the restaurant where she works as a waitress closes down, Louisa Clark is left with few job prospects. Desperate for work, Louisa takes a job as a kind of caregiver/companion for Will Trainer, a wealthy quadriplegic has lost the will to live. His bitterness and anger about his condition is often […]
