Book Clubs

This month, the Mystery Book Club will be discussing A Man Named Doll, by Jonathan Ames. Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy […]...

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 Mystery Book Club will be discussing The In Crowd, by Charlotte Vassell. In the garden of a large Georgian villa in Southwest London, socialites and politicos swap gossip and sip Pimm’s while making snide remarks at each other. Not far from this frivolity, though, a […]...

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 Mystery Book Club will be discussing A Step Past Darkness, by Vera Kurian. There’s something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it’s not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off […]...

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 Mystery Book Club will be discussing A Duty to the Dead, by Charles Todd. A Duty to the Dead introduces readers to an unforgettable new protagonist in an exceptional new series: Bess Crawford, a courageous World War I nurse and determined investigator. Once again 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 […]...

Join us as we discuss Wrong Place, Wrong Time, by Gillian McAllister. Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken […]...

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

Join us as we discuss Dark August, by Katie Tallo. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother–her last living relative–has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young […]...

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 Murder Book, by Thomas Perry. When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a […]...

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 […]...