|
|
Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
|
Popular Fiction Book Discussion
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, October 16th at 7:00pm Circe by Madeline MillerA highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. |
|
|
|
Tuesday, November 20th at 7:00pm Chariot on the mountain by Jack FordBased on little-known true events, a fictional account from an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist recreates a female slave's treacherous journey toward freedom during the days before the Civil War, a time when the traditions of the Old South still existed. |
|
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. September's Mystery Type: True Crime Wednesday, September 12th 10am - 11:30am November's Mystery Type: Archaeology Influence Wednesday, November 14th 10am - 11:30am |
|
|
|
Thursday, September 20th at 7:00pm Dracula by Bram StokerThe classic horror tale of the powerful, centuries-old vampire follows his bloodthirsty trail from the mountains of Central Europe to England, until Dr. Van Helsing comes up with a way to end his reign of terror |
|
|
"Suspense with Susie" Discussion Group
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00pm Behind closed doors by B. A. ParisThe friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the façade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows |
|
|
|
Tuesday, November 20th at 7:00pm The couple next door : A Novel by Shari LapeñaWhen 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. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, August 15th at 12:00pm The stars are fire by Anita ShreveA novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters. |
|
|
|
Monday, September 10th at 6:00pm The zookeeper's wife : a war story by Diane AckermanDocuments the heroic true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski who, in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland, saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, September 19th at 12:00pm |
After I'm gone by Laura LippmanWorking a 26-year-old cold case involving the murder of a convicted felon's mistress, retired Baltimore detective Roberto Sanchez becomes tangled up in a web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed that spans 30 years and connects five women whose lives will never be the same once the truth is exposed. |
|
|
|
Monday, October 8th at 6:00pm 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. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, October 17th at 12:00pm The women in the castle by Jessica ShattuckIn a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined. |
|
|
|
Monday, November 12th at 6:00pm Close your eyes, hold hands : a novel by Chris BohjalianLiving in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy |
|
|
|
Wednesday, November 21st at 12:00pm The good house by Ann LearySuccessful real-estate broker, family woman and raging alcoholic Hildy Good embarks on a life of denial and loneliness while resenting the intervention of her loved ones and becoming embroiled in a scandal in her New England town that involves two craggy seniors. |
|
|
Tuesday Morning Page Turners
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, September 11th at 10:00am |
|
|
American History Book Discussion Group
|
|
|
|
Thursday, November 15th at 7:00pm The true story of Detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who in 1978 went undercover to investigate the KKK. |
|
|
Science Fiction Discussion Group
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, July 25th at 7:00pm 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. |
|
|
|
Thursday, September 9th at 1:00pm or Thursday, September 20th at 7:15pm Be frank with me by Julia Claiborne JohnsonReluctantly hired into the home of a famed reclusive writer who would recapture her lost fortunes by completing a new manuscript, Alice Whitley becomes obsessed with identifying the paternity of her employer's precocious young son. 50,000 first printing. |
|
|
|
Thursday, October 11th at 1:00pm or Thursday, October 18th at 7:15pm |
Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenA timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century. Catherine Morland is destined to be the heroine of her own life story as she navigates friendships and romanticrelationships, and as she learns to let go of childish notions of fantasy regarding the lives of others. |
|
|
|
Thursday, November 8th at 1:00pm or Thursday, November 15th at 7:15pm When breath becomes air by Paul KalanithiA Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes his how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days. |
|
|
Peapack Gladstone Library
|
|
|
|
Thursday, October 25th at 7:00pm A Matter of Chance by Julie MaloneyWhen eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for her daughter. Maddy’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn, where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighbor Evelyn reconnects Maddy to her passion for painting and guides her to a life transformed through art. Detective John D’Orfini sees more than a kidnapping in the plot-thickening twists of chance surrounding Vinni’s disappearance, but his warnings to stay away from the investigation do not deter Maddy, even when her search puts her in danger. When the Russian Mafia warns her to stop sniffing into their business, Maddy must make a choice whether to save one child—even if it might jeopardize saving her own. |
|
|
|
Thursday, September 13th at 1:30pm 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. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, September 26th at 7:15pm The last days of night : a novel by Graham MooreWhen electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception. |
|
|
|
Thursday, October 11th at 1:30pm |
|
|
|
Wednesday, October 24th at 7:15pm The thirteenth tale : a novel by Diane SetterfieldHaving spent sixty years creating a series of alternate identities for herself, enigmatic Vida Winter pens a painful letter to young Margaret Lea when the latter begs her to disclose the truth about her secretive birth. |
|
|
|
Thursday, November 1st at 1:30pm The last days of night : a novel by Graham MooreWhen electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, November 14th at 7:15pm 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. |
|
|
|
Thursday, September 13th at 7:30pm |
|
|
|
Thursday, October 11th at 7:30pm 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. |
|
|
|
Thursday, November 8th at 7:30pm Mystic river by Dennis LehaneSean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret |
|
|
Somerset County Library System of New Jersey1 Vogt Drive
P.O. Box 6700
Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807
(908) 526-4016www.sclsnj.org/ |
|
|