Senior Fiction Focus @ North Avene
 
 
In partnership with the Richmond Office on Aging and Persons With Disabilities.  
 
Meets 3rd Tuesdays 10:15-12:15, February through October
(no meetings in November, December, or January).
 
While all are welcome, this event is geared towards city residents, age 55+,
who have an RPL library card <apply for one here>
 
MARCH 2019 SELECTION
 
A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
PRIL 2019 SELECTION
 
Behind Closed Doors
 
by B. A. Paris

The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of their upstairs windows.
 
also available as Large Print, eBook, audio CD.
MAY 2019 SELECTION
 
The Couple Next Door

by Shari Lapeña

When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years.
 
also available as an eBook, Large Print, and audio CD.
JUNE 2019 SELECTION
 
Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
 
 also available as Large Print, eBook, audio CD.
JULY 2019 SELECTION
 
The President is Missing

by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

A collaboration between the 42nd President and a #1 best-selling novelist traces the baffling disappearance of the leader of the free world, in a thriller that also explores the pressures, choices and threats facing the modern presidency. 
 
also available as Large Print and audio CD.
AUGUST 2019 SELECTION
 
 
Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
 
also available in Large Print.
SEPTEMBER 2019 SELECTION
 
The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.
 
Also available as an audio CD, Large Print, movie tie-in edition, "Get Lit" backpack, and DVD.
OCTOBER 2019 SELECTION
 
Becoming

by Michelle Obama

An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
 
Also available as an audio CD.
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