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RPL EVENING BOOK CLUB Meets at 6:00 p.m. on the fourth Monday of each month at the Main Library.
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Reading List for January - June 2023
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The Last Green Valley: A Novelby Mark T. SullivanIn late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
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The Children's Blizzard: A Novelby Melanie BenjaminAlliance's 2023 One Book One Community selection, the novel draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant, and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.
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What Alice Forgotby Liane MoriartySuffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
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Demon Copperhead: A Novelby Barbara KingsolverThe son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.
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Fly Girl: A Memoirby Ann HoodThe best-selling novelist shares funny, moving and sometimes shocking stories of life as a TWA flight attendant during the 1970s and 1980s as the airline industry underwent a huge transformation.
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Our Missing Hearts: A Novelby Celeste NgIn a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother -- a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old --leading him to New York City where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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