***LOUD LIBRARY - Please plan to enjoy a program in the Round Room this evening, 7:00 - 8:30 PM.***
The Evening Book Group meets the first Monday of each month (with some exceptions) at 7 p.m., October through June in person and via Zoom. Titles are chosen every three months by consensus of the group. Contact Brittany Tuttle (btuttle@minlib.net) for more details. And watch this space for upcoming titles!
Meeting dates are in bold italics.
October 7 at 7 p.m.
A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization.
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November 4 at 7 p.m.
Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play in four acts is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. Taking place on a single day in August 1912 at the seaside cottage of the Tyrone family in Connecticut, the play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member’s failings.
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December 2 at 7 p.m.
In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car―strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared.
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January 6 at 7 p.m.
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Aquarium. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus, that knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors–until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
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February 3 at 7 p.m.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters.
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March 3 at 7 p.m.
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries–“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
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April 7
This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
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May 5
May title selection coming soon!
June 13
June title selection coming soon!