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

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?

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.

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.

We will be reading The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James for our November meeting.  

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.

We will be reading The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict for our October meeting. 

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

We will be reading The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict for our October meeting. 

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

We will be reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry for our September meeting.  

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.  

We will be reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry for our September meeting.  

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.  

Join us for a diverse, pop-up concert performance with music accompaniment provided by the New Brazilian Jazz Ensemble featuring students in the Jazz Studies Department at the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. Not only will these concerts provide the opportunity for Rutgers students to be involved within their community, but also give them the opportunity to promote diversity and inclusion within Mason Gross and the community in Middlesex County.