Adult Book Club - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small Town Alaska by Heather Lende

Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air - and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful place. Her offbeat chronicle brings us inside her busy life: we meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local hardware store; their five children; and a colorful assortment of friends and offbeat neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, Mormon spelunkers...as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land. (Pub. Summary) A heartwarming book for a cold Mid-West winter?

Copies available on loan at the library.

Discussion on Monday, December 7, at 6:30 PM.

Short and Sweets - The Happy Prince

Join us for dessert and a lively discussion of "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde.

Copies of the reading are available at the library.

Discussion Wednesday, November 18, 10:00 AM.

Adult Book Club - The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

An 11-year-old solving a dastardly murder in the English countryside in 1950 wouldn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. But Flavia Sabina de Luce is no ordinary child: she's already an accomplished chemist, smart enough to escape being imprisoned by her older sisters and to exact revenge, forthright and fearless to the point of being foolhardy, and relentless in defending those she loves. When she spies on her father arguing heatedly with a strange man late at night and the next morning finds that man buried in the cucumber patch, she sets out, riding her bicycle named Gladys, to make sense of it all. (Lib. Journal Rev.)

A mystery not to be missed!

Copies available on loan at the library.

Discussion on Monday, November 2, at 6:30 PM.

Short and Sweets - The Eyes

Join us for dessert and a lively discussion of "The Eyes" by Edith Wharton.

Copies of the reading are available at the library.

Discussion Wednesday, October 21, 10:00 AM.

A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Burke & John Rendall

In 1969, Anthony "Ace" Bourke and John Rendall bought a pet from Harrods that was neither a beagle nor a parrot. Instead, "Christian" was a cuddly lion cub who soon became the most regal and noticeable resident of their flat on King's Road. Of course, lion cubs grow at a prodigious rate, and it was not long before his devoted owners realized that he belonged back in the jungle. Wisely, they dispatched him to Kenya, where he was put under expert transitional care. Christian returned to the wild, but when Bourke and Rendall visited him a year later, they discovered that their former pet had not only remembered them -- he greeted them with fervor and affection. This book tells the extraordinary TRUE story of a truly moving interspecies friendship. (B&N Rev.)

You’ll no doubt want to read this month’s selection with a tissue box in hand!

Copies available on loan at the library.

Discussion on Tuesday, October 5, at 6:30 PM.