2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

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Book Discussion Group: The Midnight Library

We will be reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig for our April meeting.  

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

CANCELED Book Discussion Group: Less

We will be reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer for our March meeting.  

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

Book Discussion Group: Harlem Shuffle

We will be reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead for our February meeting.  

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny. It has a lot to say about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel. 

Book Discussion Group: The Library Book

We will be reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean for our January meeting. 

On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?

Book Discussion Group: The Dutch House

We will be reading The Dutch House by Ann Patchett for our December meeting.  

Ann Patchett, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love, and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves, and of who we really are.

Book Discussion Group: The Sun Down Motel (Zoom)

We will be reading The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James for our November meeting, which will take place on Zoom.  A link to connect is listed below.  

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.