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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, May 16th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Technical Training Center Commonwealth : a novel by Ann PatchettA five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond. |
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Tuesday, June 20th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C This is how it always is by Laurie FrankelA family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent. |
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Tuesday, July 18th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C A piece of the world : a novel by Christina Baker KlineTells the story of Christina Olson, who served as the host and inspiration for artist Andrew Wyeth, despite an incapacitating illness. By the New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train.
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Thursday, March 23rd at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BronteAs an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. |
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Mysterious Mornings
Love a good mystery? Always looking for a new book because you've read EVERYTHING by your favorite author? Or do you just really enjoy reading mysteries? come and join our Mysterious Morning discussions!
Every other month we'll discuss a different sub-genre of mysteries. Pick a book from an author you haven't read already and tell the group all about it. There's only one big rule -- don't tell us how it ends!
A list of suggested authors and titles are available at the Bridgewater Library and books will be on display about a month prior to the discussion. (If you're a voracious mystery reader you can read more than one. May's Mystery Type: Mysteries in an Exotic Setting Wednesday, May 10th 10am - 11:30am July's Mystery Type: Mysteries in Translation Wednesday, July 12th 10am - 11:30am |
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Non-Fiction Book Discussions
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Tuesday, June 27th at 10:00am Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot by Bill O'ReillyThe host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. |
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"Suspense with Susie" Discussion Group
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Tuesday, July 25th at 7:00pm Tell no one : a novel by Harlan CobenEight years after his beloved wife, Elizabeth, was supposedly murdered by a serial killer, Beck receives information that suggests she may still be alive, but his search for the truth could mean setting himself up as the prime suspect in a number of crimes |
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Historical Fiction Book Discussion Group
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Wednesday, May 17th at 3:00pm Cavendon Hall by Barbara Taylor BradfordA tale spanning sixteen years in early-twentieth-century England finds the centuries-long relationship between the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family who serves them tested by the outbreak of World War I. |
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Monday, May 8th at 6:00pm Crossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerTwo young couples, Sid and Charity and Larry and Sally, from different backgrounds--East and West, rich and poor--befriend each other in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin, in an evocative and insightful portrait of family and friendship. |
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Wednesday, May 17th at 12:00pm Did you ever have a family by Bil CleggSurviving a disaster that kills everyone else in her family, June relocates West and settles into a directionless existence while other people impacted by the tragedy struggle with new circumstances |
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Monday, June 12th at 6:00pm Nineteen minutes : a novel by Jodi PicoultIn the aftermath of a small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while detective Patrick Ducharme works with a primary witness, the daughter of the judge assigned to the case |
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Wednesday, June 21st at 12:00pm The bookshop on the corner : a novel by Jenny ColganA "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own. |
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Monday, July 10th at 6:00pm Beautiful ruins : a novel by Jess WalterThe award-winning author of The Financial Lives of the Poets presents his most romantic and enjoyable novel yet that follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters. |
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Wednesday, July 19th at 12:00pm The beach house by Jane GreenEnjoying a near-scandalous retirement, free-spirited widow Nan Powell rents out summer rooms in her beautiful Nantucket home and finds her circle surprisingly enriched by new friends, returned family members, and an unexpected visitor who turns everyone's lives upside-down. |
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Tuesday, May 9th at 10:00am |
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Thursday, May 18th at 12:45pm The Rosie project by Graeme C. SimsionA socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father. |
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Tuesday, June 13th at 10:00am |
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Thursday, June 15th at 12:45pm The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir by Bill BrysonThe best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods and I'm a Stranger Here Myself describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his his remarkably normal 1950s family life. |
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Quarterly Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group
Join us for our quarterly non-fiction book discussion group where we will be focusing on biographies, memoirs, and other works of nonfiction that illuminate the human experience and explore our world and our history.
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Thursday, May 18th at 7:00pm The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim TuchmanA definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris. Reprint. |
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Thursday, August 17th at 7:00pm |
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A Good Yarn
Bring yarn and needles and join us to discuss a book while knitting!
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Tuesday, May 2nd at 7:00pm |
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Thursday, May 11th at 1:00pm Thursday, May 18th at 7:15pm Modern lovers by Emma StraubThree friends and former college bandmates struggle with the poignant midlife difficulties of managing the sexuality, independence and secrets of their young-adult children against painful memories of a friend who soared and fell without them. |
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Thursday, June 8th at 1:00pm Thursday, June 15th at 7:15pm Enchanted August : a novel by Brenda BowenFour women struggling with loss, disappointment and overwork rent a small summer cottage in Maine, where they find wholeness in regional comforts while sharing their respective stories and rediscovering their passions. |
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Thursday, July 13th at 1:00pm Thursday, June 20th at 7:15pm The readers of Broken Wheel recommend by Katarina BivaldA Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals. |
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Peapack-Gladstone Library
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Wednesday, May 17th at 7:30pm Fates and furies : A Novel by Lauren GroffMarrying in a glamorous whirlwind amid predictions of future greatness, Lotto and Mathilde are shaped throughout a subsequent shared decade by complications, secrets and powerful creative drives. |
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Summer Book Share
Wednesday, June 21, 7:30pm
Kick off the summer by sharing your favorite books with other library patrons. Everyone is looking for a "hot" book to read so come in and give and get some great ideas! Light refreshments served.
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Wednesday, July 19th at 7:30pm You are one of them : a novel about secrets, betrayal, and the friend who got away by Elliott HoltA first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax. |
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Thursday, May 11th at 1:30pm The readers of Broken Wheel recommend by Katarina BivaldA Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals. |
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Wednesday, May 24th at 7:15pm Girl waits with gun by Amy StewartLiving in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the confines of early-20th-century women. |
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Thursday, June 8th at 1:30pm Everything I never told you by Celeste NgA first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio. |
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Wednesday, June 22nd at 7:15pm The noise of time by Julian BarnesDedicated to Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, a first novel since the author's Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending reimagines the young musician's difficult creative compromises in the aftermath of his denouncement by Joseph Stalin. |
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Thursday, July 13th at 1:30pm Small great things : a novel by Jodi PicoultHesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged. By the #1 best-selling author of Leaving Time. |
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Wednesday, July 26th at 7:15pm The Martian : a novel by Andy WeirStranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways. A first novel. |
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Monday, May 22nd at 11:30am |
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Monday, June 19th at 11:30am Sula by Toni MorrisonThe intense friendship shared by Nel Wright and Sula Peace, two African-American women raised in an Ohio town, changes forever when one of them leaves home to roam the countryside and returns ten years later. |
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Monday, July 17th at 11:30am Tender at the bone : growing up at the table by Ruth ReichlA restaurant critic of the "New York Times" offers a memoir--with recipes--of a life spent as a restaurant owner, chef, and food critic, from California to New York City |
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Thursday, May 11th at 7:30pm News of the world : a novel by Paulette JilesA live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women. |
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Thursday, June 8th at 7:30pm East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California |
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