Tuesday Book Club

This month, the Tuesday Book Club will be discussing Rise to Rebellion, by Jeff Shaara. In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command–“Fire!”–as England’s peacekeeping mission ignites into the Boston Massacre. The senseless killing of civilians leads to a tumultuous trial in which […]...

This month, the Tuesday Book Club will be discussing Horse, by Geraldine Brooks. Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, […]...

This month, the Tuesday Book Club will be discussing This is Happiness, by Niall Williams. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now–just as Father Coffey proclaims the […]...

This month, the Tuesday Book Club will be discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt. After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been […]...

Our December Combined Book Club meeting has been cancelled. Both of our book clubs will resume in January!...

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 […]...

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, […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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, […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...