Tuesday, October 8, 1 – 2 pm at the library. Join us as we discuss The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. It centers on the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his struggle to preserve the integrity of his music while keeping himself out of the violent […]
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Thursday, August 15, 6:30 p.m. at the library. Join us as we discuss Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson. Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman […]
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1:00 pm, August 13, at the library. Join us as we discuss The Library Book by Susan Orlean. It is a full banquet of delight for library lovers everywhere. The book is constructed around the investigation into the devastating Los Angeles Public Library fire in 1986 […]
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Thursday, July 18 at 6:30 pm at the library. Join us as we discuss The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell. In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For that summer of 1944, […]
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Tuesday, June 11, at 1 pm at the Killingworth Library. “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee is the novel to be discussed at the June meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Named as one of the NYT Ten Best Books of 2017, it is a […]
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Thursday, June 20 at 6:30 pm at Killingworth Library. Join us as we discuss Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly. Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat — known in LAPD slang as “the late show” — and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours […]
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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, 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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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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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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