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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

Next Meeting: Thursday, August 1st at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works.

Book: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Book jacket image for the book Anxious People

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers–including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian–discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of eight strangers hostage. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. In short, they are the worst group of hostages in the world. But as the minutes tick by, they begin to suspect that the criminal mastermind holding them hostage might be more in need of rescuing than they are. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope–the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times. from the MORE record

Mystery Book Club

Next Meeting: Tuesday,  August 13th, 2 p.m. at the library

Book: Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman

Spider Woman's Daughter book cover image

Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn’t mean she’s going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding the shooter. Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving his former boss and partner, retired Inspector Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key. Digging into the old investigation, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth–and closer to a killer determined to prevent justice from taking its course” — from publisher’s web page. 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.

Many people plant their garden in May, so for May the theme is gardening. Your book can be about planting a garden, a biography of a gardener, or a history of a kind of garden or gardening in general.

  • Next Meeting: Thursday, July 25th from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
  • Theme: Books on Independence Days or Summer Food
  • 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