From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, character-driven” ( Booklist ) life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in […]
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting […]
*The Library will be adjusting the meeting time for Fiction Addiction during May-July to the third Wednesdays of each month at 4:00 PM (unless there is a state/national holiday that prevents us from meeting on the third Wednesdays). Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Between life and death […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard. In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you […]
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 […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Homecoming by Kate Morton. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla […]
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, […]
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from […]
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers. On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan […]
*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 […]
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that […]
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: […]