Here’s what we’re reading this month … SPINE-CRACKERS BOOK DISCUSSION Friday, May 1, 2015 @ Harnish Start Time: 12:30 PM The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd The story follows Hetty “Handful” Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! At the Water’s Edge: A Novelby Sara Gruen“Set in Loch Ness, right in the middle of WWII, a foolish group of rich Americans arrive in search of the famous monster. Narrator Maddie must make sense of the circumstances that have brought her to this wild […]
Here’s what we’re reading this month… BOOK CLUBBERSThursday, April 2, 2015 @ HarnishStart Time: 7:00 PMFrog Musicby Emma DonoghueA novel based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! The Love Song of MissQueenie Hennessy: A Novelby Rachel Joyce“Miss Queenie Hennessy, who we met in Joyce’s first book, is in a hospice ruminating over her abundant life experiences. I loved the poignant passages and wise words peppered throughout. Readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage […]
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 […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! A Spool of Blue Threadby Anne Tyler“In this book, we come to know three generations of Whitshanks–a family with secrets and memories that are sometimes different than what others observe. The book’s timeline moves back and forth with overlapping stories, just like thread on […]
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 […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley“After the unexpected recovery of her mother’s body brings the de Luce’s family secrets to light, Flavia’s life is turned upside down. Now on her way to a Canadian boarding school, […]
