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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, December 18th at 7:00pm The lido : a novel by Libby PageAn anxiety-riddled cub reporter for a small London paper is assigned to cover the closing of a local rec center and bonds with an 86-year-old widow who has swum in the community pool every day since childhood. |
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Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00pm 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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Tuesday, January 24th at 7:00pm The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy OrczyIn 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who, with a small band of dedicated friends, undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine |
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Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00pm Meet me at the museum by Anne YoungsonA disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way. A first novel. |
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Tuesday, March 19th at 7:00pm There there by Tommy OrangeA novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow |
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Tuesday, April 16th at 7:00pm America for beginners by Leah FranquiA widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family |
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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. November's Mystery Type: Archaeology Influence Wednesday, November 14th 10am - 11:30am |
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"Suspense with Susie" Discussion Group
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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. |
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Monday, December 10th at 6:00pm The night sister : a novel by Jennifer McMahonStruggling to forget a twisted discovery in the once-thriving hotel where they played as children, sisters Piper and Margot are forced to confront the past when their childhood friend, Amy, is accused of a horrific crime with ties to two other hotel residents. 75,000 first printing. |
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Wednesday, December 19th at 12:00pm The light between oceans : a novel by M. L. StedmanMoving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore only to witness a rift in their marriage that is further complicated by a search by the baby's desperate mother. |
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Tuesday Morning Page Turners
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Tuesday, December 13th at 10:00am Landline by Rainbow RowellRecognizing that her marriage is in deep trouble in spite of her abiding and mutual love for her husband, television writer Georgie excludes herself from a Christmas family visit before discovering a way to reconnect with the man her husband used to be |
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Tuesday, January 8th at 10:00am The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson WhiteheadAfter Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South |
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Tuesday, February 12th at 10:00am The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic SmithHalf a century after reluctantly painting a forgery of the only surviving work by a seventeenth-century female Dutch artist, Ellie Shipley curates an exhibit of women Dutch painters and risks exposure when both the original and her forgery arrive |
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Tuesday, March 12th at 10:00am |
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American History Book Discussion Group
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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. |
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Tuesday, December 13th at 10:00am Skipping Christmas : a novel by John GrishamLuther and Nora Krank decide to avoid the chaos and frenzy of Christmas by taking a Caribbean cruise during the holidays, but their plans have unexpected consequences |
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Tuesday, January 10th at 10:00am The little Paris bookshop by Nina GeorgePrescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef |
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Thursday, February 14th at 1:00pm or Thursday, February 21st at 7:15pm The Good Lord Bird by James McBrideFleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. By the best-selling author of The Color of Water. |
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Thursday, March 7th at 1:00pm or Thursday, March 21st at 7:15pm 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, April 4th at 1:00pm or Thursday, April 18th at 7:15pm The muralist by Barbara A. ShapiroAuction-house employee Danielle Abrams investigates the unsolved disappearance of her famous artist great-aunt when she discovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind Abstract Expressionist works created decades earlier. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Art Forger. Reprint. A national best-seller. |
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Peapack Gladstone Library
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Thursday, December 13th at 7:30pm |
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Thursday, January 10th at 7:30pm Cannery row by John SteinbeckVividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California |
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Thursday, Februrary 14th at 7:30pm Circling the sun : a novel by Paula McLainRaised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife. |
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Thursday, March 14th at 7:30pm And then there were none by Agatha ChristieA killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution set to a sinister nursery rhyme |
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Thursday, April 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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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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