Join A Book Group!

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YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at
2 PM. Newcomers always

October: Thursday, October 26th at 2 PM
(Note date change.)

Lessons in Chemistry
    by Bonnie Garmus

Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

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FYI:  Past YPL Book Group picks include:

September: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
     by Gabrielle Zevin

August: Demon Copperhead
  by Barbara Kingsolver
              and
David Copperfield
   by Charles Dickens

June: The Secret River
   by Kate Grenville

May: The Marriage Portrait
   by Maggie O'Farrell

April: Fresh Water for Flowers  
    by Valerie Perrin and
         Hildegarde Serle

March: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
     by Laura Imai Messina

February: The Leavers
   by Lisa Ko

January: Horse
   by Geraldine Brooks

November: Trust
   by Hernan Diaz

October:
   The Sweetness of Water
     by Nathan Harris
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Looking Ahead:
YPL Book Group

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November: Thursday, November 16th at 2 PM

This Is Happiness
     by Niall Williams

You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed.

The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.

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Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM.
(Call the library for contact information and further information.)

Thursday, October 12th
at 4 PM

The Book of Everlasting Things
    by Aanchal Malhotra

“Monumental…A far-reaching love story.” —NPR (A Best Book of the Year)

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer’s apprentice and calligrapher’s apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Suddenly, they find themselves on opposite sides: Samir, a Hindu, becomes Indian and Firdaus, a Muslim, becomes Pakistani, their love now forbidden. Severed from one another, Samir and Firdaus make a series of fateful decisions that will change the course of their lives forever. As their paths spiral away from each other, they must each decide how much of the past they are willing to let go, and what it will cost them.
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FYI: Past Neighborhood Book Group picks include:

September: East of Eden
   by John Steinbeck
                  &
Demon Copperhead
   by Barbara Kingsolver

May: Empire of Pain
   by Patrick Radden Keefe

April: The Phone Booth at the End of the World
   by Laura Imai Messina

March: The Book of Form and Emptiness
    by Ruth Ozeki

February: Stolen
    by Richard Bell

January: The Custom of the
   Country by Edith Wharton

December: Empire of
   Deception by Dean Jobb

November: Horse
    by Geraldine Brooks

September: The Wise Men:
   Six Friends and the World
   They Made
        by Walter Isaacson

June: The Warmth of Other 
   Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 
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