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Tuesday Book Club

  • Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    September 6, 2024 by
    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 […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    August 13, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Last Bookshop in London, by Madeline Martin. August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for August
    Tuesday Book Club Title for August
    July 11, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for July
    Tuesday Book Club Title for July
    June 4, 2024 by
    Join us in July as we discuss Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin. In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, […]...
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  • Combined Book Club Title for June
    Combined Book Club Title for June
    May 29, 2024 by
    Join us as the Mystery Book Club and Tuesday Book Club meet to discuss The Maid, by Nita Prose. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    January 10, 2024 by
    Join us as we discuss The Awkward Age, by Francesca Segal. In a Victorian terraced house, in north-west London, two families unite in imperfect harmony. After five years of widowhood, Julia is deeply, unexpectedly in love. If only her beloved daughter, Gwen, didn’t hate James so much. […]...
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  • Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    Combined Tuesday & Mystery Book Club Title for June
    May 19, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss The Guest List, by Lucy Foley. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for May
    Tuesday Book Club Title for May
    April 12, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny. Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhere—at restaurants, at the […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Theme for March
    Tuesday Book Club Theme for March
    February 16, 2023 by
    Join us this month in discussing a banned book of your choice, to read ahead and share with the group! You can find suggested reads here: Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged books, 2010-2019 (courtesy of the American Library Association). The discussion will be held in the […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    Tuesday Book Club Title for February
    January 14, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for January
    Tuesday Book Club Title for January
    January 5, 2023 by
    Join us as we discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This is a collection of essays, by a Native American botanist who is also the Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the […]...
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  • Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
    November 26, 2022 by
    To celebrate the Holiday Season, The Mystery Book Club and the Tuesday Book Discussion Group are holding a joint session on Wednesday, December 21st at 6:30. It is being held at the BarrelHouse on Route 81 in Killingworth. Two self published authors, both Killingworth residents, will discuss […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for November
    Tuesday Book Club Title for November
    October 31, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. It is a fictionalized account of a real road trip with two young giraffes across the south headed for the San Diego Zoo. The giraffes arrived in New York Harbor during the 1938 hurricane, and amid […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    Tuesday Book Club Title for October
    September 19, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss Still Life by Sara Winman. It covers the decades from the Second World War through the 1980s, with characters you will not want to leave behind and places where you’ll want to linger. From London to Florence, it’s always about the people […]...
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  • Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    Tuesday Book Club Title for September
    August 23, 2022 by
    Join us as we discuss The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, […]...
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