BOOK CLUBS

American Lives Book Club

This group meets on the Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm. The American Lives is a non-traditional book group that focuses on the lives of influential Americans. It will focus on the person rather than the book. Choose to read one or more biographies about our subject, each book on the list presents a different view. This will prompt lively discussions facilitated by Bill Wilson. Remote participation available.

Participants are invited to read additional biographies as well.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 – 6:30 PM – A Novel Look at the American Experience

• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
• Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 – 6:30 PM: Revolutionary (War) Espionage

• Washington’s Spymaster: A Revolutionary War Memoir of Espionage, Patriotism, and the Legendary Cupler Spy Ring – Firsthand Accounts from George Washington’s Intelligence Officer by Benjamin Tallmadge
• Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution by John Bakeless
• 355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring by Kit Sergeant
• Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
• Spies, Patriots and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War by Kenneth A. Daigler

• Spies, Soldiers, Couriers, and Saboteurs: Women of the American Revolution by K.M. Waldvogel (This is a Young Adult book but was well reviewed)

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 – 6:30 PM: Spies of the Civil War

• The Spy of the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton
• Pinkerton’s War: The Civil War’s Greatest Spy and The Birth Of The U.S. Secret Service by John Nagy
• Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
• Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America by Scott Ellsworth
• Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War by Donald E. Markle

• Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon

• Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War by Gerri Willis
• Secret Missions of the Civil War by Phillip Van Doren Stern

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Library Hours

Monday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.