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, […]
Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, Guilt by Degrees is a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable Rachel Knight. Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight -- someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide […]
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 […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Zenith Man by McCracken Poston, Jr. Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story—sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking—of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the […]
#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 […]
Join the Katie Lamb Friends of the Library as they host local author Garrett Nudd who will discuss his book - More Than - Nonfiction/Self-Help/Christian Most people view themselves as less than―less than they are, less than others see them, and less than God designed them to be. Countless times in our own lives and […]
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: […]
You are invited to join us as we revive our Recipe Swap & Dinner during March at the Katie Lamb Public Library in Collegedale. Select a cookbook (either from our library or from your own personal collection) and prepare a dish of choice. Bring a copy of the recipe directions to share with everyone. Since […]
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field […]
Join the Katie Lamb Friends of the Library as they host local author Daniel D. Smith who will discuss his book - The Biltmore’s Mona Lisa - Mystery, Historical Fiction Author and Military Historian Daniel Smith brings to life this thrilling art heist in his historical fiction novel The Biltmore's Mona Lisa. In 1941, France's […]
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier. 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a […]