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Book Club Party

It’s been a great year of intriguing and entertaining discussions during our Popular Page Turners Book Club and Flirty Fiction Romance Book Club! Come enjoy some treats, play games, and talk about your favorite (non-book club) books you’ve read this year with your fellow book club members. Haven’t joined us for one of our book… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we're discussing The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi: A talented henna artist for wealthy confidantes finds her efforts to control her own destiny in 1950s Jaipur threatened by the abusive husband she fled as a teenage girl. Copies of the book… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we're discussing The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell: Inheriting an abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, 25-year-old Libby Jones is soon on a collision course with her birth family's past that is linked to… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we're discussing The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we're discussing Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we're discussing Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala: When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant,… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

NOTE: This meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 15th. Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke: A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

NOTE: This meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th. It was postponed until Wednesday, April 24th. Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict: Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Circulation Desk a month before the meeting date. Registration is required. This month, we are discussing A Woman of No Importance: the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Circulation Desk a month before the meeting date. Registration is required. This month, we are discussing Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid: A story about race and privilege is centered around a… Read More

Book Club Party!

It's been a great year of intriguing and entertaining discussions during our Popular Page Turners Book Club, but we're taking a break this month for a party. Come enjoy some treats, play games, and talk about your favorite (non-book club) books you’ve read this year with your fellow book club members. Haven't joined us for… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we are discussing West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge: Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938.… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we are discussing Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy: Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we are discussing Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner: The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we are discussing Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about popular books. This month, we are discussing The Guest List by Lucy Foley: An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress and an… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing The Guncle by Steven Rowley: When Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP) for short, takes on the role of primary guardian for his young niece and nephew, he sets “Guncle Rules,” but soon learns that… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams: Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she’s facing at home, and decides… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us monthly for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and genres. This month, we are discussing The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin: Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and areas of interest. This month, we are discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have… Read More

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us for an evening of engaging conversation about our favorite books and areas of interest. This month, we are discussing The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the… Read More