ADULT BOOK CLUBS
Mystery Book Club
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Seven years after her best friend Aubrey mysteriously died in front of the enigmatic Frank, Maya’s carefully rebuilt life is shattered by a viral video showing another young woman’s sudden death in Frank’s presence. Unable to ignore the eerie parallels, Maya is drawn back into the trauma she has tried so hard to forget.
Determined to uncover the truth, Maya returns to her Berkshires hometown to confront the haunting memories of that fateful summer. She revisits the complex web of Frank’s magnetic influence, her secret addiction, and the jealousy that ultimately fractured her friendship with Aubrey.
At her mother’s house, Maya discovers hidden messages in her late father’s writings—clues that suggest a deeper mystery connected to her past. As she pieces together fragments of her memory, Maya finds herself drawn closer to Frank’s isolated cabin, where long-buried secrets and the answers she seeks await.
Tuesday, January 28 @ 5:00 PM
Banned or Challenged Book Club
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school.
She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether.
Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.
Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.
Tuesday, February 4 @ 5:00 PM
Romance Book Club
Seven Days In June by Tia Williams
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.
Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered....
Tuesday, February 11 @ 5:30 PM
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Jay Gardiner has set out on a fool’s errand: Find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot but feels it’s the only way to relieve the guilt he has carried since his dad’s suicide the previous year.
The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles, then pulled into the whale’s mouth and the first of its four stomachs.
He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.
Tuesday, February 18 @ 5:30 PM
TEEN BOOK CLUB
Teen Book Club
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Since their mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has traveled the world with their father, renowned Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, while his younger sister Sadie has lived with their grandparents in London.
Carter envies Sadie's normal life, and Sadie longs for time with their father. Their worlds collide on Christmas Eve when they're reunited at the British Museum, where their father attempts to "make things right."
But things go awry when Julius summons a mysterious figure who banishes him and triggers a fiery explosion. The siblings soon discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are awakening, and Set, the most dangerous of them, has a terrifying plan.
To save their father, Carter and Sadie must embark on a perilous journey, uncovering hidden truths about their family’s connection to the ancient House of Life.
Saturday, February 1 @ 1:00 PM
CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB
Elementary Book Club & Movie
Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him.
What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart.
Tuesday, February 11 @ 4:00 PM
ADULT BOOK CLUBS
Mystery Book Club
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Seven years after her best friend Aubrey mysteriously died in front of the enigmatic Frank, Maya’s carefully rebuilt life is shattered by a viral video showing another young woman’s sudden death in Frank’s presence. Unable to ignore the eerie parallels, Maya is drawn back into the trauma she has tried so hard to forget.
Determined to uncover the truth, Maya returns to her Berkshires hometown to confront the haunting memories of that fateful summer. She revisits the complex web of Frank’s magnetic influence, her secret addiction, and the jealousy that ultimately fractured her friendship with Aubrey.
At her mother’s house, Maya discovers hidden messages in her late father’s writings—clues that suggest a deeper mystery connected to her past. As she pieces together fragments of her memory, Maya finds herself drawn closer to Frank’s isolated cabin, where long-buried secrets and the answers she seeks await.
Tuesday, January 28 @ 5:00 PM
Banned or Challenged Book Club
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school.
She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether.
Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.
Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.
Tuesday, February 4 @ 5:00 PM
Romance Book Club
Seven Days In June by Tia Williams
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.
Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered....
Tuesday, February 11 @ 5:30 PM
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Jay Gardiner has set out on a fool’s errand: Find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot but feels it’s the only way to relieve the guilt he has carried since his dad’s suicide the previous year.
The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles, then pulled into the whale’s mouth and the first of its four stomachs.
He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.
Tuesday, February 18 @ 5:30 PM
TEEN BOOK CLUB
Teen Book Club
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Since their mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has traveled the world with their father, renowned Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, while his younger sister Sadie has lived with their grandparents in London.
Carter envies Sadie's normal life, and Sadie longs for time with their father. Their worlds collide on Christmas Eve when they're reunited at the British Museum, where their father attempts to "make things right."
But things go awry when Julius summons a mysterious figure who banishes him and triggers a fiery explosion. The siblings soon discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are awakening, and Set, the most dangerous of them, has a terrifying plan.
To save their father, Carter and Sadie must embark on a perilous journey, uncovering hidden truths about their family’s connection to the ancient House of Life.
Saturday, February 1 @ 1:00 PM
CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB
Elementary Book Club & Movie
Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him.
What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart.
Tuesday, February 11 @ 4:00 PM