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This book club meets virtually. Please sign up here to get the link.

December 16 Horse by Geraldine Brooks
2024 Book Club Selections

January 20: Winterland by Rae Meadows (IN PERSON)

February 17: Wintering by Katherine May

March 16: Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

April 20: The Canary Girls By Jennifer Chiaverini 

May 18: Finding Me: A Memoir By Viola Davis

June 15: The Postcard, by Anne Berest

July 20: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women By Linda See

August 17:  The Women by Kristen Hannah

September 21: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

October 19: The Library book by Susan Orlean

November 16: Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

December 21: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

December 16 at 4 p.m.

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

You can request a book, or ebook from the Mid-Hudson library system. It is also available as an ebook from Hoopla. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

January 20 at 2 p.m. IN PERSON

Winterland by Rae Meadows

Perfection has a cost . . . With transporting prose and meticulous detail, set in an era that remains shockingly relevant today, Rae Meadows’s Winterland tells a story of glory, loss, hope, and determination, and of finding light where none exists.

Author Rae Meadows will be here to discuss the book! Please come and join us and read this fascinating book.

 

You can request a book, audiobook or e-book from the Midhudson library System. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

International Mystery

Book Club

In person, the 3rd Monday of each month at 2 p.m.

Masks are REQUIRED for this club.

December 18 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (ENGLAND)

2024 Book Club Selections

January 22: Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty –  1980’s Northern Ireland

February 19: The Crossing Places – Emily Griffiths – England

March 18: The Girl Who Died – Ragnar Jonasson – Modern Day Iceland & Strong Poison – Dorothy Sayers – Post WWI England

April 15: The Dying Detective – Leif Persson – Modern Day Sweden

May 20: Murder in Chianti – Camilla Trinchieri – Modern Day Italy & The Veiled One – Ruth Rendell – 1970’s England

June 17: Slow Horses – Mick Herron – Modern Day England

July 15: The Blackhouse – Peter May – Modern Day Scotland & The Black Tower – P.D. James – 1970’s England

August 19: Midnight at Malabar House – Vaseem Khan – 1950s Bombay

September 16: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul – Shamini Flint – Singapore &  Maigret Bides His Time – Simenon Georges – 1950’s Paris

October 21: The Man Who Died – Antti Tuomainen – Finland

November 18: Malice – Keigo Higashino – Modern Day Japan

December 16: Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-Up – Emily Brightwell – Victorian England

December 18 at 2 p.m.

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (ENGLAND)

Hercule Poiror’s Christmas is the classic locked-room murder mystery. Simeon Lee invites his children and their wives for Christmas but late on Christmas Eve, a struggle is heard, furniture is knocked over, and his dying scream brings everybody in the house running.

 

You can request a regular or large print book from the Mid-Hudson library system. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

January 22 at 2 p.m.

Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty –  1980’s Northern Ireland

It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.

And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

 

 

You can request a regular or large print book from the Mid-Hudson library system. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

The Fourth Wednesday of the Month at 2 p.m.

For adults who love Young Adult literature!

 

November 29 (fifth Wednesday)  Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

 

November 29 at 2 p.m.

Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father’s chest.
The only way to heal him is to cast an extremely difficult spell that requires perfect control. And the only person willing to help is her former best friend, Xavier, who’s grown from a sweet, shy child into someone distant and mysterious.

 

You can request a regular or large print book from the Mid-Hudson library system. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

In person on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m.

November 28: Bunny by Mona Awad

 

Tuesday, November 28 at 6 p.m.

Bunny by Mona Awad

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

 

 

 

 

You can request a book from the Mid-Hudson library system. Please call the library with any questions, 845-657-2482.

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