Park Ridge Public Library
Book Club Newsletter
March 2023
 
New Book Discussion Sets
Honor
by Thrity N. Umrigar

An Indian American journalist returns home to cover the story of a Hindi woman attacked by her own family for marrying a Muslim and deals with a society that places more weight on tradition than one's heart.

Generously donated by Second Park Ridge Review Club.
Join a PRPL Book Discussion
Read Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Virtual book discussion on April 11 at 7 pm
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In-person book discussion on April 27 at 10 am
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng

In a society consumed by fear, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner receives a mysterious letter and sets out on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese-American poet who left when he was nine years old. This leads him to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.

 
Green Reads
Read The Future We Choose 
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
In-person book discussion on April 25 at 7pm
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The Future We Choose : Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres

A cautionary but hopeful report by the cofounders of Global Optimism and architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement outlines urgent measures that must be taken to adapt to or reverse climate change.

Read Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
In-person book discussion on April 19 at 7 pm
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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
by Clare Pooley

An eclectic group of train commuters traveling from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station discover that talking to strangers can help them learn more about themselves in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Authenticity Project.
Virtual Author Talk: An Evening with Thrity Umrigar
 
April 26 at 7pm
 
 
Join us for a conversation with Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist Thrity Umrigar.
She is the best-selling author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, The Weight of Heaven, The World We Found, The Story Hour, Everybody’s Son and The Secrets Between Us. Her most recent novel, Honor, was a Reese's Book Club pick.
Please sign up directly through Zoom. You will get a follow-up e-mail with directions on how to attend the webinar.
In partnership with Niles-Maine District Library.
 
 
 
 
Magical Realism
 
The Removed 
by Brandon Hobson

A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death. By the National Book Award-winning author of Where the Dead Sit Talking. 
The Measure
by Nikki Erlick

A spirit-lifting, high-concept blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live.
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one: following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist. She must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin

After getting readings from a psychic reputed to be able to tell customers when they will die, four siblings from New York's Lower East Side hide what they learn from each other before living five decades of experiences shaped by their determination to control fate. 
 
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