New Adult Book Club: Playing the Witch Card
If you are a new adult, a parent in need of a break, interested in making new friends, and most importantly, a book lover, we invite you to join us for an exciting New Adult Book Club! Every 3rd Friday!
New Adult Book Club
October 18th, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Location Pending!
Playing the Witch Card
by: KJ Dell’antonia
She gave up on magic. But magic didn’t give up on her.
Two exes. One misbehaving mother. Surprising magic. The perfect recipe for Halloween chaos.
Flair Hardwicke knows the deal: Magic is real, love isn’t, and relying on either ends in disaster. She’s seen the havoc romance and witchcraft wreaked on her mother’s life, and Flair swore off all of it long ago, after the boy she thought was her destiny ditched her. But then her strictly no-magic life falls apart, and Flair inherits her grandmother’s home and bakery in Rattleboro, Kansas.
When the cookies Flair decorates as Tarot cards unleash the magic of the family deck she stole as a child, luring Flair’s mother to town, tempting Flair’s magic-obsessed daughter, ensnaring Flair’s ex in a curse she can’t break, and bringing Flair’s first love back to town, Flair has to accept that while she may have given up on magic, it refuses to give up on her.
As Flair’s attempts to control the Tarot cards play into the hands of a powerful witch, Flair must find a way to accept her magical heritage in order to save those she loves from a danger she’d never anticipated. Part Gilmore Girls, part Practical Magic, this romp of a tale is KJ Dell’Antonia at her very best.
Content Warning: Infidelity, Toxic Relationship, Violence, Fire/Fire Injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Domestic Abuse…
Adult Book Club: The Wind Knows My Name
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
The Wind Knows My Name
by: Isabel Allende
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht—the night their family lost everything. Samuel’s mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. However, their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination she created with her sister back home.
Anita’s case is assigned to Selena Duran, a young social worker who enlists the help of a promising lawyer from one of San Francisco’s top law firms. Together they discover that Anita has another family member in the United States: Leticia Cordero, who is employed at the home of now eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler, linking these two lives.
Spanning time and place, The Wind Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers—and never stop dreaming.
Contact: Amber/Hope
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Ethics Book Club
Join us at the Ethics Book Club! Each month, Hillman Interns from The Janet Prindle Institute of Ethics and guest DePauw University professors will discuss readings that explore ethical dilemmas and themes. You don’t want to miss examining classic and contemporary literature!…
Adult Book Club: None of This is True
Join the discussion at Adult Book Club every second Monday of the month. Celebrating 25 years, you won’t want to miss out on great discussions, voting, and good company!
Contact: Amber/Hope
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None of This is True
By: Lisa Jewell
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done? …
New Adult Book Club: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
If you are a new adult, a parent in need of a break, interested in making new friends, and most importantly, a book lover, we invite you to join us for an exciting New Adult Book Club at the library!
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid…
Books & Brews: 100 Pages or Less
Books & Brews is a BYOB (bring your own book) Book Club. Each month, our facilitator will choose a reading theme for the group and the following month readers will have a chance to share new or old favorites in a round-robin style discussion. Read solo or pair up, this book club is great for both casual and avid readers alike!…
LIBRARY HOURS
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: Closed