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Our casual lunchtime book club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month to discuss a variety of fiction and nonfiction, and to share a love of reading.
This fall, we will meet in person at the library at 11:00 AM, and virtually on Zoom at 12:30 PM. Please choose the mode that works for you. Books are available at the Checkout Desk any time after the previous discussion. If the library is closed, only the Zoom discussion will take place. |
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December 8Please join us on Zoom for discussion at 12:30 PM.
OPEN SEASON
by C. J. Box Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the "outfitter murders," as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police. As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear. |
January 12.
CHALLENGER DEEP
by Neal Shusterman Caden Bosch is on a galleon that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. He is designated the ship’s artist in residence to document the journey with images. Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head. He is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny. He is torn. He is dealing with schizophrenia… and as fantasy and paranoia begin to take over, his parents have only one choice left. |
Upcoming Titles
February 9
RADIOACTIVE by Lauren Redniss |
March 9
BAD AXE COUNTY by John Galligan |
April 13
CATCH AND KILL by Ronan Farrow |
May 11
A GATE AT THE STAIRS by Lorrie Moore |