The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller is an eco-feminist fantasy about an estranged family of witches. When “The Old One”—an ancient, vengeful spirit of the land—decides humanity’s destruction must […]
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.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. Set in rural Appalachian Virginia, the novel follows Damon “Demon” Fields as he navigates systemic poverty, the brutal foster care […]
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Bleak House follows the intertwining lives of orphans Esther Summerson, Richard Carstone, and Ada Clare, who are trapped in the endless Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. While the case drags on, Esther uncovers her identity as […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is an eco-thriller set in a remote Polish village. The elderly, eccentric protagonist, Janina, believes that persecuted local animals are enacting supernatural, murderous […]
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Yellowface is a biting satirical thriller about June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals a deceased literary prodigy’s unfinished manuscript about Chinese laborers in WWI. After passing the book off […]
The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
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 […]
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: […]