Adult Book Clubs

Next Meeting: Thursday, October 5th at 6 p.m. at The Amery Ale Works (588 115th St, 588 115th St, Amery).

Book: For October’s Books & Brews, you get to pick which title you would like to read. Choose one: Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman or Moloka’i by Alan Brennert.

Daisy Wilder prefers the company of horses to people, bare feet and salt water to high heels and society parties. Then, in the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs (Women’s Air Raid Defense) guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits must rise above their differences and work side by side despite the resistance and heartache they meet along the way. With America’s future on the line, Daisy is determined to prove herself worthy. And with the man she’s falling for out on the front lines, she cannot fail. From radar towers on remote mountaintops to flooded bomb shelters, she’ll need her new team when the stakes are highest. Because the most important battles are fought–and won–together. This inspiring and uplifting tale of pioneering, unsung heroines vividly transports the reader to wartime Hawaii, where one woman’s call to duty leads her to find courage, strength and sisterhood. — from MORE

Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka’i. In her exile she finds a family of friends to replace the family she’s lost: a native healer, Haleola, who becomes her adopted “auntie” and makes Rachel aware of the rich culture and mythology of her people; Sister Mary Catherine Voorhies, one of the Franciscan sisters who care for young girls at Kalaupapa; and the beautiful, worldly Leilani, who harbors a surprising secret. At Kalaupapa she also meets the man she will one day marry. from MORE

Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 10th, 2 p.m. at the library

Book: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm’s claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers…” from MORE

Past Books

• February 2023 – The Maid by Nita Prose
• March 2023 – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• April 2023 – The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• May 2023 – Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
• June 2023 – The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• July 2023 – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• August 2023 – The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
• September 2023 – Still Life by Louise Penny

Next Meeting: Wednesday, October, 18th

• NEW TIME – 6:00 p.m. at the library

Current Book: The Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

“Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family’s concerns, Binti’s talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti’s spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. There is more to the history of the Medusae–and their war with the Khoush–than first meets the eye. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace. Collected now for the first time in omnibus form.”–.from MORE

Past Books:

• February 2023 – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• March 2023 – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• April 2023 – The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• May 2023 – Book of Night by Holly Black
• June 2023 – Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• July 2023 – Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
• August 2023 – Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
• September 2023 – Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir