2022 Lock Your Doors: A  True Crime Book Club
Whether you're a long-time true crime reader, a devoted ID television channel watcher, or just discovered the genre recently through podcasts, Lock Your Doors is the book club for you.  Join us for a discussion of some fascinating and disturbing crimes in this new quarterly book club. 
 
Lock Your Doors meets in the Library's Community Room at 7 pm on a quarterly basis .Limited in-person spots will be by reservation only.  Virtual attendance via Zoom is also offered. 
 
Registration is required for in-person AND virtual attendance. Visit our events calendar to find upcoming meeting dates and registration links.
 
New participants are welcome at any time. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to reserve a print copy of the next title to be discussed. Digital copies of each title (eBook or eAudiobook) may be available through Overdrive/Libby or Hoopla.
 
See below for details about the titles we'll discuss in 2022.
 
Monday, March 21
The stranger beside me
by Ann Rule

From the perspective of the former policewoman, crime writer, and unknowing personal friend, tells the story of Ted Bundy, a brilliant law student executed for killing three women, who confessed to killing thirty-five others
Monday, June 20
Last Call : A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by Elon Green

Documents the decades-long effort to capture the “Last Call Killer” of 1980s and 1990s New York City, discussing how he took advantage of period discrimination to prey upon gay victims against a backdrop of the AIDS epidemic. 100,000 first printing. Maps.
Monday, September 12
Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch

Tells the true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it. Map.
Monday, December 12
Murder in Canaryville : the true story behind a cold case and a Chicago cover-up
by Jeff Coen

"The cold-case murder of John Hughes, the son of a Chicago Outfit member suspected of pulling the trigger, and the efforts of a determined detective to unravel a cover-up. A murder that had roiled the city and had been investigated for years had been reduced to a few reports and photographs. What should have been a massive file with notes and transcripts from dozens of interviews was nowhere to be found. Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock could have left the records center without the folder and cruised into retirement, and no one would have noticed. Instead, he tucked the envelope under his arm and carried it outside"
Join us for BookEnds on Tuesday, December 13, 7 pm
Calling all readers! You're invited to share some of your favorite books that you've read this year. It doesn't matter if you've read them for a book club, by recommendation or chance, or if they've been around for a while or newly published. Come and share them with other readers and get ideas for books to add to your reading list.
 
(Registration for this program is required and will be available closer to the program date.)
 
 
 
 
Book Club Kits
The Bloomington Public Library has collected multiple copies of recent bestsellers and other popular titles and created Book Discussion Kits that may be checked out by book discussion groups.
Each kit has between six and 15 copies of a title and can be checked out for up to eight weeks at a time. You may check out up to two Book Discussion Kits at a time. Book Discussion Kits may not be renewed.
In our online catalog, search the phrase book club kit for a list of titles. This list can also can be found by clicking HERE.
 
 
 
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