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Tuesday Book Club

  • Combined Book Club Title for December
    Combined Book Club Title for December
    October 30, 2025 by
    Join us as both of our book clubs discuss Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman. Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    August 11, 2025 by
    Join us as we discuss The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King. Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for August
    Tuesday Book Club Title for August
    July 21, 2025 by
    Join us as we discuss Late Migrations, by Margaret Renkl. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, […]...
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  • Combined Book Club Title for June
    Combined Book Club Title for June
    May 13, 2025 by
    Join us this June as our Mystery and Tuesday Book Clubs meet to discuss We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the […]...
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    Tuesday Book Club Title for May
    April 14, 2025 by
    Join us as we discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `Table for Two by Amor Towles`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for April
    March 11, 2025 by
    Join us as we discuss Table for Two, by Amor Towles. The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `Book cover: The Ride of Her Life`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for March
    February 5, 2025 by
    Join us as we discuss The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `The Covenant of Water novel cover`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    December 17, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `Once There Were Wolves book cover`
    December Combined Book Club Title
    November 13, 2024 by
    Join both the Tuesday Book Discussion and the Mystery Book Club, as we wrap up the year with Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `The Island of Missing Trees book cover`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for November
    October 10, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `Life on the Mississippi book cover`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    September 6, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Life on the Mississippi, by Rinker Buck. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `The Last Bookshop in London novel cover`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    August 13, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Last Bookshop in London, by Madeline Martin. August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `Lessons in Chemistry book cover`
    Tuesday Book Club Title for August
    July 11, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her […]...
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  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
    Tuesday Book Club Title for July
    June 4, 2024 by
    Join us in July as we discuss Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin. In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, […]...
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  • Here's an alt tag for the image: `The Maid novel by Nita Prose`
    Combined Book Club Title for June
    May 29, 2024 by
    Join us as the Mystery Book Club and Tuesday Book Club meet to discuss The Maid, by Nita Prose. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying […]...
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