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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, August 15th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C Close enough to touch by Colleen OakleyA young woman with a rare and debilitating allergy to other humans is forced to venture out into the world after the death of her mother before forging an unusual bond with a struggling single dad |
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Tuesday, September 19th at 7:00pm
Location: Bridgewater Library, Room C Sycamore : a novel by Bryn ChancellorWhen human remains are linked to the unsolved disappearance of a teen 18 years earlier, the residents of the victim's hometown rekindle stories, rumors and recollections while examining the complicated history that led to the tragedy. |
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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: 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, September 26th at 7:00pm Every fifteen minutes by Lisa ScottolineA single father and head of a successful Philadelphia psychiatric care unit sees his life begin to crumble when a teen patient is implicated in a murder and the doctor himself is wrongly accused of sexual harassment |
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Historical Fiction Book Discussion Group
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Wednesday, September 20th at 3:00pm Birdsong by Sebastian FaulksIn 1910, Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, journeys to France and becomes embroiled in a series of traumatic events, including a clandestine love affair, and is later trapped amid the horrors of the First World War |
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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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Monday, August 14th at 6:00pm 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. 75,000 first printing. |
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Wednesday, August 16th at 12:00pm Nine women, one dress : a novel by Jane L. RosenNine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties. |
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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, 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, 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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Thursday, August 10th at 1:00pm Paris for one and other stories by Jojo MoyesA collection of eight short stories is complemented by a novella in which a young woman abandoned during a romantic mini-vacation gathers the courage to embark on an independent tour of Paris |
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Thursday, August 17th at 7:15pm Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison BechdelAn unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. |
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Peapack-Gladstone Library
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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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Wednesday, September 20th at 7:30pm 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. |
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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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Thursday, August 10th at 1:30pm Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MontgomeryA gift-appropriate, keepsake edition of the classic first book in the Anne of Green Gables series follows the mistaken adoption of a trouble-prone orphan who wins over her Avonlea neighbors, forges a bosom friendship and spurns the advances of a handsome boy who teases her about her flaming red hair. Simultaneous. |
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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, July 13th at 7:30pm The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinWhile on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him |
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Thursday, August 10th at 7:30pm Conclave by Robert HarrisAfter the demise of the Pope, 118 cardinals converge on the Sistine Chapel to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election, where ambition and rivalry play out over the course of 72 hours. |
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