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Adult Book Clubs

We have three book clubs to choose from:

  • Books & Brews meets the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works. This club reads a variety of fiction books, and even non-fiction on occasion.​
  • Mystery Book Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. at the library.
  • Non-fiction Book Club meets the last Thursday of each month at 2:00 p.m. at the library
Books & Brews

book cover image for The Marriage Portrait

Next Meeting: Thursday, February 6th at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works.

Book: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Moderna and Regio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court’s eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance. MORE record

 

Mystery Book Club

Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 11th at 2 p.m. at the library
Book: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

book cover for the book Winter Counts.

Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. MORE record

Past Books

Non-fiction Book Club

Non-fiction book club

Do you enjoy reading non-fiction? Then this is the book club for you.

In most book clubs, the members all read and discuss the same book at a meeting. However, when it comes to non-fiction, it is often difficult to obtain multiple copies of the same book. So, this book club uses a thematic approach instead. Each month the members read a book of their own choice about a theme that the group agreed upon at the previous meeting. Then at the book club meeting, each member talks about their book and what they learned.

In honor of the new year, the theme for the January meeting is “time”. Read any book related to time in some way and join us to share what you discovered!

  • Next Meeting: Thursday,  January 30th from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
  • Theme: Time
  • Meeting location: Makerspace Room on the lower level of the library

Questions? Contact Trevor Richards, the library’s Adult Services Librarian, at (715) 268-3431 or trichards@amerylibrary.org