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 […]
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.
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 […]
Kindred
Dana, a modern Black woman, is mysteriously transported through time to a pre-Civil War plantation, where she repeatedly saves her white ancestor Rufus from fatal situations. Each time she travels […]
The Murmur of Bees
In rural Mexico, a mysterious abandoned baby found covered in bees becomes part of the Morales family. Simonopio, born with a cleft lip, possesses supernatural abilities and an extraordinary connection […]
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
After losing her son, Tova Sullivan takes a night cleaning job at an aquarium. There, she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who becomes her confidant. […]
The Girl With the Louding Voice
The Girl with the Louding Voice is a 2020 coming of age novel and the debut of Nigerian writer Abi Daré. It tells the story of a teenage Nigerian girl called Adunni who becomes a maid and struggles with many things growing up, including her limited education, poverty and the inability to speak up for herself.
Now is Not the Time to Panic
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke. Zeke is a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is.
The Fifth Season
A captivating fantasy novel set in a world constantly threatened by catastrophic geological events. It follows the story of three women with extraordinary powers, exploring themes of oppression, prejudice, and the resilience of the human spirit.
A Gentleman in Moscow
Alexander Ilych Rostov is an aristocrat sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to a lifetime of confinement in the luxury hotel. While the country he once knew transforms outside his door, the Count undertakes his own transformation in a decades-long quest for freedom.