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Nite Readers: Rebecca

April 18, 2019 Nite Readers

Rebecca By: Daphne Du Maurier Date: Thursday, May 16th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at […]

Great Books: Darkness at Noon

April 17, 2019 Enjoying the Classics

Darkness at Noon By: Arthur Koestler Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin’s purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically […]

Forever Young: Love, Hate & Other Filters

April 8, 2019 Forever Young

Love, Hate & Other Filters By: Samira Ahmed Date: Monday, May 13th, 2019 @Eastgate Time: 7:00pm Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there […]

Spinecrackers: Manhattan Beach

April 5, 2019 Spinecrackers

Manhattan Beach By: Jennifer Egan Date: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @Harnish Time: 10:00am Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. […]

Stranger Than Fiction: The Monster of Florence

April 4, 2019 Stranger Than Fiction

The Monster of Florence By: Douglas Preston Date: Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 @Eastgate Time: 6:30pm In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as […]

Book Clubbers: The Library Book

April 4, 2019 Book Clubbers

The Library Book By: Susan Orlean Date: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once […]

Cozy Corner: Murder Past Due

April 3, 2019 Cozy Corner

Murder Past Due By: Miranda James Date: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He’s returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he’s entangled in a real-life thriller… A famous author […]

Nite Readers: Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

March 27, 2019 Nite Readers

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers By: Sara Ackerman Date: Thursday, April 18th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE CHECKOUT IN AUDIO FORMAT ON HOOPLA! Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young […]

Great Books: The Good Earth

March 27, 2019 Enjoying the Classics

The Good Earth By: Pearl Buck Date: Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 @Harnish Time: 7:00pm AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE CHECKOUT IN EBOOK AND AUDIO FORMATS ON HOOPLA! This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his […]

Forever Young: My Lady Jane

March 27, 2019 Forever Young

My Lady Jane By: Cynthia Hand Date: Monday, April 8th, 2019 @Eastgate Time: 7:00pm AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE CHECKOUT IN AUDIO FORMAT ON HOOPLA! Edward (long live the king) is the King of England. He’s also dying, which is inconvenient, as he’s only sixteen and he’d much rather be planning for his first kiss than considering who will inherit his crown… […]