This compelling 2005 memoir focuses on the hardscrabble childhood author Mary Karr experienced in an east Texas oil town. Her family includes a father who drinks too much and a mother who has remarried — many times. It was described by USA Today...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club: Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje, best known for his novel The English Patient, sets this story in Sri Lanka. The main character is forensic anthropologist Anil Tissera, who returns to her native country by way of an international human rights group trying to uncover...
Read more2nd-Friday Book Club
All are welcome to The 2nd-Friday Book Club. Copies of the current selection are usually available at the circulation desk. For information about this month’s title, please click here.
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The After-Dark Book Club will discuss The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a novel by Rachel Joyce. This 2013 novel will appeal to fans of A Man Called Ove. It follows Harold Fry, a just-retired man living an unremarkable life in an English...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: The Children Act by Ian McEwan
At its October meeting, the club will discuss The Children Act by Ian McEwan.This 2014 novel centers around a court case involving Jehovah’s Witnesses denying medical treatment to their dying teenage son, and the middle aged female judge...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: A Piece of the World
At its November meeting, the club will discuss A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, a fictionalized account of the life of Christina Olson, the disabled woman made famous by the Andrew Wyeth painting Christina’s World. For information...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the failed novelist Arthur Less as he attempts to run away from his invitation to his former boyfriend’s wedding by traveling the world. He can’t say yes to the invitation — it would be too...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko follows four generations of a Korean family beginning in 1911. The relationship at its center is that between Sunja, a 17-year-old Korean girl, who falls in love and gets pregnant by a handsome, wealthy – and unbeknownst to her – married...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
This book details Winston Churchill’s time in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically the events that he once said would “ … lay the foundations of my later life.” After being taken prisoner in 1899 when he was a...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
On Canaan’s Side is a novel composed of journal entries by an 89-year-old Irish émigré, Lilly Bere, who begins writing as a way to cope with the loss of her grandson, Bill, to suicide. In recalling her life, Lilly details the forces that brought...
Read moreAfter-Dark Book Club: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
On its surface, this acclaimed 2016 memoir sounds like an American success story, as its author, J.D. Vance, grows up poor in the Rust Belt and then goes on to join the Marines and graduate from Yale Law School. In truth, it’s about the struggles...
Read moreLast Day to Turn in Adult Reading Game Card
This is the last day to turn in your completed card for the adult version of the Summer Reading Game, giving you the chance to enter the raffle for our grand prize — a Kindle E-reader! The reading game for children has been a staple of...
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