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Book Club Combo Summer Meetup!
This month, the Tuesday Book Discussion and Mystery Book Club meet together at the BarrelHouse for a mid-year celebration! Special guests – Connecticut mystery writers Joseph J. Bradley and Lynn Sheft – will be on hand to share their stories about writing and getting published. Copies of […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for May
Join us as we discuss The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for April
Join us as we discuss The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. The story is set on the Korean Island of Jeju and spans the years from the 1938 Japanese occupation to South Korea’s modern republic of 2008. The women of the title are haenyeo, female […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for March
Join us as we discuss The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede. When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for February
Join us at the February 8th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group as we discuss A Pilgrimage to Eternity: from Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan. Moved by his mother’s death and his Irish Catholic family’s complicated history with […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for January
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is the novel to be discussed at the January 11th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who […]...
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Book Club Combo Holiday Meetup!
Fifteen people participated in the December 16, 2021 Holiday Book Discussion at the BarrelHouse. It was a fun evening and overall, in keeping with the Mystery Book Club practice, on a scale from 1 to 5, “The Searcher” by Tana French had an average rating of […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for November
November 9 at 1:00 pm Caste by Isabel Wilkerson is the novel to be discussed at the November 9th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for October
October 12 at 1:00 pm The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is the novel to be discussed at the October 12th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern […]...
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Tuesday Book Club Title for September
September 14 at 1:00 pm “The Lions of Fifth Avenue” by Fiona Davis is the novel to be discussed at the September 14th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. The novel spans 80 years (1913-1993) and 3 generations and is centered around the majestic […]...
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The Tuesday Book Club Selection for August
1:00 pm August 10, at the Library. Join us as we discuss The Engineer’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood. Emily Warren Roebling is the wife of the chief engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge. When her husband suffers the bends from his underwater work on the structure, she […]...
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The Tuesday Book Club Selection for July
July 13 at 1:00 pm. Join us as we discuss A Woman of No Importance: the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell. Virginia Hall was sent by the British as a Special Operations Executive Agent to southern France […]...
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Tuesday Book Club
Tuesday, June 8, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm. READER’S CHOICE – June’s meeting is a chance to share! Come talk about a title that you read recently, or just sit in to get some great recommendations. Meeting location to be announced....
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Tuesday Book Club Pick For May
May 11, from 1 – 2 pm. Join us as we discuss American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Extra copies will be available at the circulation desk. Details about meeting location coming soon!...
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The Tuesday Book Club Selection for April
April 13, 1 – 2 pm “Beartown” by Fredrik Backman is the novel to be discussed at the April 13th meeting of the Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group. The book’s setting is a small dying town surrounded by forest. But Beartown’s junior hockey team is on the […]...
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