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Mystery Book Club Selection for May

Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 pm; Killingworth Library. Please join us as we discuss Faithful Place by Tana French. Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his […]

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Tuesday Book Club Title for May

Tuesday, May 14 at 1:00 pm.  Join us at Killingworth Library as we discuss In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu. “There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it.” When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New […]

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Mystery Book Club Selection for April

April 18, 6:30 at Killingworth Library.  Join us as we discuss Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason. A corpse is found on a hill outside the city of Reykjavík, and Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team think the body may have been buried for some […]

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Tuesday Book Club Title for April

April 9 at 1:00 pm, Killingworth Library. The Keepers of the House is a 1964 novel by Shirley Ann Grau set in rural Alabama and covering seven generations of the Howland family that lived in the same house and built a community around themselves. As such, it […]

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Mystery Book Club Selection for March

March 21, 6:30 pm at the Barrelhouse, Rte 81 Killingworth.  Join us as we discuss Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming. On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire. The […]

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Tuesday Book Club Title for March

Tuesday, March 12, 1:00 pm at the Killingworth Library. The memoir “The Choice” by Edith Eva Eger (with Esme Schwall Weigand) is the work to be discussed at the March meeting of the Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Subtitled “Embrace the Possible”, it is the inspiring story of […]

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Mystery Book Club Title for February

February 21, 6:30 pm at Killingworth Library. Join us as we discuss In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. […]

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Tuesday Book Club – Feb Meeting Cancelled

The 2/12 book club meeting has been cancelled due to the weather.  We will be discussing the February book during our March meeting: Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann.   The subtitle of this nonfiction work, “The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” sets […]

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Mystery Book Club Title for January

Thursday, January 17, 6:30 p.m. at the library.  Join us as we discuss The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale. “In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London — for ten […]

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Tuesday Book Club Title

SPECIAL LOCATION FOR DECEMBER’S MEETING! Join us as we discuss The Residence by Kate Andersen Brower. An intimate account of  White House service staff, it covers the Kennedy presidency through that of Barack Obama. Its voices are those of  maids and butlers, florists, engineers, and of course […]

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