Adult Book Clubs

Next Meeting: Thursday, November 7th at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works.

Book: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate–along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish–pass to her adopted son, Camden. But to everyone’s surprise, Cam wants little to do with the house or the money–and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, Camden is a McTavish in name only, but a summons in the wake of his uncle’s death brings him and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but coming home reminds Cam why he was so quick to leave in the first place. Jules, however, has other ideas, and the more she learns about Cam’s estranged family–and the twisted secrets they keep–the more determined she is for her husband to claim everything Ruby once intended for him to have. But Ruby’s plans were always more complicated than they appeared. As Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will–and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave. MORE record

Next Meeting: Tuesday,  November 12th at 2 p.m. at the library

Book: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows… Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide goes out and all is revealed.   MORE record

Past Books

• 2024
  • January 2024 – Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
  • February 2024 – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  • March 2024 – The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • April 2024 – The K Team by David Rosenfelt
  • May 2024 – The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
  • June 2024 – Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
  • July 2024 – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
  • August 2024 – Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
  • September 2024 – The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
  • October 2024 – Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet
•  2023
  • 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
  • October 2023 – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
  • November 2023 – Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
  • December 2023 – An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

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.

There is an election in November so the group decided that the theme for October should be politics. Read a book about any aspect of politics and share what you learned at the meeting in October.

• Next Meeting: Thursday,  October 31st from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
• Theme: Politics – in honor of the upcoming election
• 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