Book Clubs

Traveling Book Club

Third Tuesday each month @ 6:00 pm for dinner, 6:30 begin discussion.

A new Traveling Book Club that will rotate each month between different restaurants.

Explore different towns and eateries while you meet new people and try new books.

Register at your local library and order a copy of the book using the library catalog.

Afternoon Book Club

Second Thursday & last Tuesday each month @ 1:00 pm in the library. Join us for one session or both, no registration required.

Tuesday, January 28th

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Winning a junior ice hockey championship means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. At first, it seems like the team might have a shot at fulfilling the dreams of their entire town. But one night at a drunken celebration following a key win, something happens between a player and the general manager’s daughter–and the next day everything seems to have changed. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.– Provided by publisher

Thursday, February 13th

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives despite the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment– Provided by publisher.

Evening Book Club

Usually the last Monday of each month @ 6:30 pm. Location rotates between various eating spots.  Order your copy using the library catalog or ask us for help.

Monday, January 27th at Ras’ in Hammond

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.”–Amazon.

Tween Book Club

Ages- completed 5th grade and up, snacks are provided!

We met in August and had a great discussion on Restart by Gordon Korman.

Call the library at 715-684-3813 (ask for Molly or Rebecca) to get information on when we meet again.

• During the school year the group meets occasionally as the group chooses.
• B-W Bus #18 stops right at the library at 3:30 (Required: a note from home if you are changing buses).