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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Winter Book Discussion Drawing!
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Winter is the perfect time to catch up with your reading! It's also the perfect time to get together with fellow readers and talk about books. Join the discussion at a book group at one of our branches from January through March and each time you participate get a drawing ticket. Lucky winners will receive $25 gift cards to Barnes & Noble.
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Thursday, July 18th at 7:00pm |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, July 16th at 7:00pm Disappearing Earth : a novel by Julia PhillipsThe shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension. A first novel. |
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Tuesday, August 20th at 7:00pm Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean KwokA poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. |
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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. July's Mystery Type: Legal Thrillers Wednesday, July 10th 10am - 11:30am September's Mystery Type: Musical Mysteries Wednesday, September 11th 10am - 11:30am |
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"Suspense with Susie" Discussion Group
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Tuesday, July 23rd at 7:00pm The vanishing season : A Mystery by Joanna SchaffhausenAn award-winning first novel follows the experiences of a police officer who hides her identity as a serial killer's only surviving victim while overseeing petty crime in a sleepy community where the disappearances of three people on a fateful anniversary compels the officer to reach out to the FBI agent who saved her years earlier. |
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Nighttime Book Discussion Group
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Monday, July 8th at 6:00pm Before we were yours : a novel by Lisa WingateA tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger. |
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Monday, August 12th at 6:00pm To kill a mockingbird by Harper LeeThe explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape |
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Monday, September 9th at 6:00pm Gone so long by Andre DubusA man living a solitary existence in seaside New England travels to a quaint Florida community in search of his traumatized, estranged daughter. |
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Daytime Book Discussion Group
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Wednesday, July 17th at 12:00pm The husband hour by Jamie BrennerA surprise visitor interrupts a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town, forcing her to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband and the past she has tried to leave behind. By the author of The Gin Lovers. 50,000 first printing. |
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Monday, August 21st at 6:00pm The Interestings by Meg WolitzerForging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers |
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Monday, September 18th at 6:00pm Ladies' night by Mary Kay AndrewsAfter an act of post-divorce rage forces her to move in with her mother and attend court-mandated group therapy, rising media star Grace Stanton bonds with three fellow patients whom she helps plot justice and closure |
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Fantasy Book Discussion Group
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Tuesday, July 16th at 6:30pm All our wrong todays : a novel by Elan MastaiLiving in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life. |
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Tuesday, August 20th at 6:30pm |
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Tuesday, September 17th at 6:30pm Way Station by Clifford D. SimakAn ageless hermit runs a secret way station for alien visitors in the Wisconsin woods in this Hugo Award-winning science fiction classic. |
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Thursday, July 11th at 6:00pm All is not forgotten by Wendy WalkerGiven a controversial drug to erase her memory of a violent assault, young Jenny Kramer struggles with difficult emotional memories that linger months later as her father becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother descends into denial |
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Thursday, August 8th at 6:00pm Something in the water : a novel by Catherine SteadmanA shocking discovery while on their honeymoon in Bora Bora forces Mark and Erin to make a dangerous choice between speaking out or protecting their secret |
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Thursday, September 5th at 6:00pm The breakdown by B. A. ParisPlagued with guilt for not stopping for a stranded driver who was later reported murdered, Cass struggles with an increasingly compromised memory before she begins receiving silent phone calls she believes are from the killer |
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Tuesday Morning Page Turners
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Tuesday, July 9th at 10:00am We are not ourselves : a novel by Matthew ThomasRaised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine in mercurial ways, Eileen marries an unambitious scientist with whom she endures an increasingly psychologically dark family life. A first novel. |
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Tuesday, August 13th at 10:00am The Alice Network by Kate QuinnIn 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission. |
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American History Book Discussion Group
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Thursday, May 16th at 7:00pm The witches : Salem, 1692 by Stacy SchiffThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible. |
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Thursday, July 11th at 1:00pm or Thursday, July 18th at 7:15pm The widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata MasseyIn 1921, Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances |
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Thursday, August 8th at 1:00pm or Thursday, August 15th at 7:15pm The reluctant fortune teller by Keziah FrostA down-on-his-luck septuagenarian curmudgeon is taken under the wing of a group of fun-loving seniors who use his special skills at observation to remake him as a community fortune teller, a situation that is complicated by the disappearances of two young women. |
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Thursday, September 12th at 1:00pm or Thursday, September 19th at 7:15pm Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood by Trevor NoahThe host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world. |
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Thursday, July 18th at 7:15pm Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannPresents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller and National Book Award finalist. |
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Thursday, August 1st at 1:30pm |
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Wednesday, September 11th at 7:15pm |
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Thursday, September 26th at 1:30pm Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. A first novel. |
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Thursday, July 11th at 7:30pm The Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. |
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Thursday, August 8th at 7:30pm The Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonA novel of manners by Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country is the story of Undine Spragg, a young woman with social aspirations who convinces her nouveau riche parents to leave the Midwest and settle in New York. |
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Thursday, September 12th at 7:30pm Skeletons on the Zahara : a true story of survival by Dean KingRetracing an epic eight-hundred-mile journey, the author of Patrick O'Brien: A Life Revealed chronicles the hardships encountered by twelve American sailors who, in 1815, were shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, captured, sold into slavery, and sent on a difficult odyssey through the perilous heart of the Sahara. |
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Somerset County Library System of New Jersey1 Vogt Drive
P.O. Box 6700
Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807
(908) 526-4016www.sclsnj.org/ |
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