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Interested in being in a book club but not necessarily every month? Well join us for our monthly book club. We’d loved to see you every month but if you can’t make it you still get the discount on the book! We will have a monthly book that will be discounted by 15%. We’d love to have you. Do you already have a book club? Register your club at the store and as long as you order a minimum of 8 books, you will receive 15% off your monthly title, plus we will provide help with selections, information on reading guides and gathering place if needed. If you have less than 8 members, we may be able to help with getting more members for your group. Give us a try! |
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Adult Book Club
Sept. 28th Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history – the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The first book of the Hunger Games introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world where a powerful government called the Capitol has risen up after several devastating disasters. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to a fight. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to show how no one, including children, is above the Capitol's power. The last person standing wins the game. Collins says that the idea for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on the T.V., and that the Greek myth of Theseus serves as inspiration for the book. She also says that her father fighting in the Vietnam War helped her understand how it feels to fear the loss of a loved one.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.
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Fall Children's Book Clubs
Grades K & 1: Wednesday, Sept 22 6:30pm, Wednesday, Oct 20 6:30pm, Wednesday, Nov 17 6:30pm
Grades 2 & 3: Wednesday, Sept 29 6:30pm, Wednesday, Oct 27 6:30pm, Wednesday, Dec 1 6:30pm
Grades 4 & 5: Wednesday, Oct 6 6:30pm, Wednesday, Nov 3 6:30pm, Wednesday, Dec 8 6:30pm
Registration for all 3 dates will be required so we can have our minimum enrollment. $15.00 activity fee covers all three dates and is due upon registration. Books will be available by September 1st. Payment for books are not due until you pick up your books. Here is the required registration form.
ADULT BOOK CLUB PREVIOUS TITLES:
Very Valentine When Men Become Gods Little Bee **Glass Castle Kabul Beauty School Tallgrass Mudbound History of Love A Clockwork Orange Spellman Files Book Thief FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB The Piano Tuner BROTHERS **PILLARS OF THE EARTH Hidden by Paul Jaskunas Face Behind the Veil by Donna Gehrke-White Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington Time and Again by Jack Finney **Snow Flower and Secret Fan by Lisa See The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler **Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward **Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards Dishwasher by Pete Jordan Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen **Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert ** Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
** Denotes A Favorite!
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