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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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, […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →Our December Combined Book Club meeting has been cancelled. Both of our book clubs will resume in January!
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