ADULT BOOK CLUBS
Mystery Book Club
New Year's Eve Murder by Leslie Meier
After the Christmas festivities in Tinker’s Cove, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are ready to celebrate the new year with a trip to Manhattan, having won a mother-daughter makeover from Jolie magazine. Elizabeth is thrilled, but Lucy is less excited about facing crowded shopping streets during a flu epidemic. Despite her doubts, Lucy looks forward to the chance to bond with Elizabeth and enjoy a little culture in the city.
Upon arriving at Jolie, the mother-daughter duo is immersed in the world of high fashion, with Elizabeth dazzled by the extreme outfits and models, while Lucy feels uneasy about the cutthroat atmosphere. Things take a dark turn when Jolie’s fashion editor, Nadine Nelson, mysteriously falls ill and dies. Lucy, having witnessed the magazine’s toxic dynamics firsthand, uncovers a web of animosity among the staff, with several people harboring grudges against Nadine and her clique of high-powered fashionistas.
The mystery becomes personal when Elizabeth develops symptoms eerily similar to Nadine’s. Now, Lucy must uncover the killer before time runs out and the ball drops in Times Square.
Tuesday, December 31 @ 5:00 PM
Banned or Challenged Book Club
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.
However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
Tuesday, January 7 @ 5:00 PM
Romance Book Club
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Lily has worked hard to build the life she wants, leaving her small-town roots behind to graduate from college, move to Boston, and start her own business. When she meets the gorgeous neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, everything in her life seems too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and a little arrogant, but he’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a soft spot for Lily. Despite his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder why he’s so averse to relationships.
As Lily’s thoughts turn to Ryle and her past love, Atlas Corrigan—her first love and protector—reappears, threatening everything Lily has with Ryle.
Tuesday, January 14 @ 5:30 PM
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Linus Baker, a quiet, solitary man, works as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, overseeing children in government-run orphanages.
At forty, his life revolves around his tiny house, a devious cat, and old records. When Linus is unexpectedly called for a top-secret assignment, he is sent to Marsyas Island Orphanage, home to six dangerous children: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist.
His task is to determine if they pose a threat to the world. But the children aren’t the island’s only secret. Their caretaker, Arthur Parnassus, will do anything to protect his wards, and as Linus and Arthur grow closer, long-hidden truths emerge.
Linus must ultimately choose between destroying a home or allowing the world to burn.
Tuesday, January 21 @ 5:30 PM
TEEN BOOK CLUB
Teen Book Club
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Saturday, January 4 @ 1:00 PM
CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB
Elementary Book Club & Movie
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Can a robot survive in the wilderness?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home—until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Tuesday, January 14 @ 4:00 PM
ADULT BOOK CLUBS
Mystery Book Club
New Year's Eve Murder by Leslie Meier
After the Christmas festivities in Tinker’s Cove, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are ready to celebrate the new year with a trip to Manhattan, having won a mother-daughter makeover from Jolie magazine. Elizabeth is thrilled, but Lucy is less excited about facing crowded shopping streets during a flu epidemic. Despite her doubts, Lucy looks forward to the chance to bond with Elizabeth and enjoy a little culture in the city.
Upon arriving at Jolie, the mother-daughter duo is immersed in the world of high fashion, with Elizabeth dazzled by the extreme outfits and models, while Lucy feels uneasy about the cutthroat atmosphere. Things take a dark turn when Jolie’s fashion editor, Nadine Nelson, mysteriously falls ill and dies. Lucy, having witnessed the magazine’s toxic dynamics firsthand, uncovers a web of animosity among the staff, with several people harboring grudges against Nadine and her clique of high-powered fashionistas.
The mystery becomes personal when Elizabeth develops symptoms eerily similar to Nadine’s. Now, Lucy must uncover the killer before time runs out and the ball drops in Times Square.
Tuesday, December 31 @ 5:00 PM
Banned or Challenged Book Club
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.
However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
Tuesday, January 7 @ 5:00 PM
Romance Book Club
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Lily has worked hard to build the life she wants, leaving her small-town roots behind to graduate from college, move to Boston, and start her own business. When she meets the gorgeous neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, everything in her life seems too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and a little arrogant, but he’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a soft spot for Lily. Despite his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder why he’s so averse to relationships.
As Lily’s thoughts turn to Ryle and her past love, Atlas Corrigan—her first love and protector—reappears, threatening everything Lily has with Ryle.
Tuesday, January 14 @ 5:30 PM
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Linus Baker, a quiet, solitary man, works as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, overseeing children in government-run orphanages.
At forty, his life revolves around his tiny house, a devious cat, and old records. When Linus is unexpectedly called for a top-secret assignment, he is sent to Marsyas Island Orphanage, home to six dangerous children: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist.
His task is to determine if they pose a threat to the world. But the children aren’t the island’s only secret. Their caretaker, Arthur Parnassus, will do anything to protect his wards, and as Linus and Arthur grow closer, long-hidden truths emerge.
Linus must ultimately choose between destroying a home or allowing the world to burn.
Tuesday, January 21 @ 5:30 PM
TEEN BOOK CLUB
Teen Book Club
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Saturday, January 4 @ 1:00 PM
CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB
Elementary Book Club & Movie
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Can a robot survive in the wilderness?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home—until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Tuesday, January 14 @ 4:00 PM