Mystery Book Club<\/span><\/h2>\nThis group meets generally meets on the third Tuesday of the month, at 6:30 pm. Informal discussions are led by Ethel Himmel. Anyone who has read the book is welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
2026 Book List<\/span><\/h3>\n\n- 1\/20<\/strong>\u00a0Northern Spy<\/em> by Flynn Berry<\/span><\/li>\n
- 2\/17<\/strong> Echo<\/em> by Tracy Clark<\/span><\/li>\n
- 3\/17<\/strong> The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress<\/span><\/em> by Ariel Lawhon<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- 4\/21<\/strong>\u00a0The Tainted Cup<\/em> by Robert Jackson Bennett<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- 5\/19<\/strong>\u00a0Captain’s Tale<\/em> by Danielle Hanna<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- 6\/16<\/strong>\u00a0You Know What You Did<\/em> by K.T. Nguyen<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- 7\/21<\/strong>\u00a0The Confessor<\/em> by Daniel Silva<\/span><\/li>\n
- 8\/18<\/strong>\u00a0All the Sinners Bleed<\/em> by S.A. Cosby<\/span><\/li>\n
- 9\/15<\/strong> To Slip the Bonds of Earth<\/em> by Amanda Flower<\/span><\/li>\n
- 10\/20<\/strong>\u00a0The Lantern’s Dance<\/em> by Laurie R. King<\/span><\/li>\n
- 11\/17<\/strong>\u00a0Dead Simple<\/em> by Peter James<\/span><\/li>\n
- No December Meeting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Short Story Night<\/span><\/h2>\nThis group meets on the first Tuesday of the month, at 6 pm. Don\u2019t have time for a regular book club? Short Story Night is for you! Read the story, then join us for a fun discussion. Contact the library to get a copy of this month\u2019s story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n- \n
\n- January 6<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- February 3<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- March 3 – Cat in the Rain<\/em> by Ernest Hemmingway<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- April 7 – A Good Man is Hard to Find<\/em> by Flannery O’Connor<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- May 5 – No Me Dejas<\/em> by Mark Oshiro<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- June 2 – The Swimmer<\/em> by John Cheever<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- July 7 – The Egg<\/em> by Andy Weir<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- August 4 – Yellow Tulips<\/em> by Nathan Curtis Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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American Lives Book Club<\/span><\/h2>\nThis 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<\/g> view. This will prompt lively discussions facilitated by Bill Wilson. Remote participation available.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Participants are invited to read additional biographies as well.<\/span><\/p>\nTuesday, August 11, 2026 – 6:30 PM: The Uneven Struggle for Liberty and Justice for All (Part 2)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S History<\/em> by Ned Blackhawk<\/span><\/li>\n
- And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote<\/em> by Johanna Neuman<\/span><\/li>\n
- Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution<\/em> by David Carter<\/span><\/li>\n
- American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction<\/em> by David A. Gerber<\/span><\/li>\n
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America<\/em> by Juan Gonzalez<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Making of Asian America<\/em> by Erika Lee<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
*PLEASE NOTE DAY CHANGE FOR SEPTEMBER*<\/span> Monday, September 14, 2026 – 6:30 PM: The Naturalists<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of Birds of America<\/em> by William Souder<\/li>\n
- The Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon<\/em> by Nancy Plain<\/li>\n
- The Birds of America<\/em> by John James Audubon<\/li>\n
- Walden or, Life in the Woods<\/em> by Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n
- Henry David Thoreau: A Life<\/em> by Laura Dassow Walls<\/li>\n
- Nature Writings: The Story of my Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen: The Story of a Dog<\/em> by John Muir<\/li>\n
- A Sand County Almanac<\/em> by Aldo Leopold<\/li>\n
- Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work<\/em> by Curt Meine<\/li>\n
- Silent Spring<\/em> by Rachel Carson<\/li>\n
- Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature<\/em> by Linda Lear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 – 6:30 PM: Creators of America’s Built Environment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period<\/em> by Hugh Sinclair Morrison<\/span><\/li>\n
- Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan: Personal Histories of Two Icons of American Architecture<\/em> by Trygve Thoreson<\/li>\n
- A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> by Witold Rybcznski<\/li>\n
- The Autobiography of an Idea<\/em> by Louis Sullivan<\/li>\n
- Henry Hobson Richardson: A Genius for Architecture<\/em> by Margaret Henderson Floyd<\/li>\n
- Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography<\/em> by Frank Lloyd Wright<\/li>\n
- Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography<\/em> by Meryle Secrest<\/li>\n
- The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century<\/em> by Mark Lamster<\/li>\n
- Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry<\/em> by Paul Goldberger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 – 6:30 PM: The Artists<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Gilbert Stuart<\/em> by Carrie Rebora Barratt & Ellen G. Miles<\/li>\n
- The Hudson River School: Nature and the America Vision<\/em> by Linda S. Ferber<\/li>\n
- An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth<\/em> by James H. Duff<\/li>\n
- Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life \u2013 The Definitive Biography Revealing the Turbulent Obsession Behind an Iconic American Realist Painter<\/em> by Richard Meryman<\/li>\n
- Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/em> by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp<\/li>\n
- Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography<\/em> by Gail Levin<\/li>\n
- American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell<\/em> by Deborah Solomon<\/li>\n
- Warhol<\/em> by Blake Gopnik<\/li>\n
- The Obama Portraits<\/em> by Taina Beatriz Caragol-Barreto, Richard J. Powell, and Dorothy Moss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tuesday, December 8, 2026 – 6:30 PM: The Photographers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n