Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Frozen River by Arial Lawhon - open to anyone, no library card requirement. A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Kill Artist by Ann Rule. Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett. “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. […]
“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing All is Not Forgiven (Detectives Kenda & Wilson #1) by Joe Kenda. The Homicide Hunter’s riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth … All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to […]
In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, […]
*Please note Fiction Addiction Book Club is meeting earlier than our usual rotation for August to accommodate relocation to the completed library from the pop-up space during the last couple weeks of August. Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks. A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen. The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication. A true story of love, […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: […]