Book Talks
For all book talks, the library provides as many of these options for checkout as possible: hard copy in regular and large print, digital copies through Hoopla and/or Libby, and books on CD. This will vary from book to book.
Each group meets in person with snacks provided, but participants may join by Zoom.
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JCPL Book Club meets each fourth Thursday (unless noted) at noon.
They are reading:
June 25: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Two men who once called each other friend before one is suspected of the rape and murder of a local girl are forced to confront the past they’ve buried and ignored for decades.
July 23: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the most famous of Doyle’s mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life.
A story of how even the best of lives can be destroyed in just an instant.
September 24: Atonement by Ian McEwan
A child’s incomplete grasp of adult motives spurs a crime, whose repercussions McEwan follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the 20th century.
October 22: The Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick
Seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they start questioning the very nature of their reality.
December 10: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives in a perfectly planned wedding. And then someone turns up dead.
Our Evening Book Talk meets at 6PM on the third Thursday of every month.
Here’s what they’re reading:
June – History Matters by David McCullough
This posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.
July – Smoke and Silence: The Lives of Ol’ Mort by Tanner Levi Hunter Willis
A folk epic memoir built from memory, myth, and the stories passed down across generations in eastern Kentucky.
August – Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
A novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
September – Close Range by Annie Proulx
A collection of stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in Wyoming, a landscape both brutal and magnificent.
October – Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Following two generations of two Ohio families experiencing the consequences of a long-ago encounter, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and goodness.
November – The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Osman is back with everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet in a second installment of the Thursday Murder Club in which the group must go against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
December – The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Down on her luck, Carmen picks up a job at a failing bookstore. Can she breathe some new life into it in time for Christmas shopping?