The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah. The book tells the story of Frances “Frankie” McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States […]
Knit & Lit Book Club
Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.
Main Library Auditorium
Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
The Wager tells the true, dramatic story of the 18th-century British warship HMS Wager, which shipwrecked off Patagonia during a secret mission against Spain, leading to brutal survival, mutiny, murder, […]
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The first novel in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization. The extraterrestrials hail from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars orbiting one another, a representative example of the three-body problem in orbital […]
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
In her dreams, Sybil receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and people travel across the kingdom to learn their […]
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a fantasy novel by V.E. Schwab about a French woman who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality in 1714, but is cursed to be […]
I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
Exploding with rage, heartbreak, and love, I, Medusa portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart’s deepest desires and the cruel, careless games that the Olympian gods play. Gray […]
The Hidden Life of Trees
Forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: […]
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Ella finds herself acting to save her town from the encroaching totalitarianism of the Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from […]
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, with a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. […]
Cold Sassy Tree: A Novel
In a small Georgia town in 1906, 14-year-old Will Tweedy narrates the scandalous story of his grandfather Rucker Blakeslee, who remarries just three weeks after his wife’s death to a […]
The Berry Pickers: A Novel
A Mi’kmaq family’s summer picking blueberries in Maine takes a devastating turn when 4-year-old Ruthie goes missing. Decades later, her brother Joe and a woman named Norma become entangled in […]
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
In 15th-century China, Tan Yunxian, a female physician, defies societal constraints to practice medicine alongside her female physician grandmother. Despite restrictions on women’s education and mobility, she forms deep bonds […]