Join A Book Group!

YPL Book Group led by Leslie Altman meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at
2 PM. Newcomers always welcome! No meeting in December.

January, Thursday,
January 19th at 2 PM.

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.
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FYI: In case you are looking for books to read this winter, past YPL Book Group picks include:

January: Hour of the Witch
     by Chris Bohjalian

February: Painting the Light
     by Sally Cabot Gunning

March: Echo Mountain
     by Lauren Wolk

April: The Four Winds
     by Kristin Hannah

May: The Island of Missing
     Trees by Elif Shafak

June: The Promise
     by Damon Galgut

September: The Midnight  
     Library by Matthew Haig

October: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

November: Trust
     by Herman Diaz
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Looking Ahead:

YPL Book Group Selections:

February:  Thursday,
February 16th at 2 PM.

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko’s powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
 
One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. 

With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. 
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Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM.

December: Thursday, December 8th at 4 PM.
     
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation     
   by Dean Jobb

It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama.

This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town, then on the lam, is not only a rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it’s a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history.

Call the library for contact information and further information.
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