Copies of the books are available by request through CLEVNET.
August 21, 2023 @ 6 pm
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before its too late?
September 18, 2023 @ 6 pm
Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering the art of spinning, putting her family in danger. She decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave the pod.
October 16, 2023 @ 6 pm
THE LOST APOTHECARY by Sarah Penner
In eighteenth-century London, women whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago.
November 13, 2023 @ 6 pm
Molly Dunn struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. But Molly's orderly life is turned on its head the day she finds the infamous and wealthy Charles Black very dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's odd demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect and she finds herself in a web of subtext and nuance she has no idea how to untangle.
December 11, 2023 @ 6 pm
LIES THAT BIND by Emily Giffin
On a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner is sitting alone in a dive bar in New York's East Village when she meets Grant and over the next several hours -- and shots of tequila -- the two forge an unlikely connection. They can't seem to say goodbye, and for the first time in her carefully constructed life, Cecily follows her heart instead of her head. Then Grant disappears in the chaos of 9/11. Cecily spots his face on a missing-person poster, and realizes she is not the only one searching for him.