Brown Bag Book Group, last Thursday of every month at noon.
Mystery Book Group, second Thursday of every month at 10:30.
Upcoming book group meetings:
January 31, 2019 @ 12pm: Brown Bag Book Group
We will be reading Etched in Granite by MJ Pettengill. Feel free to bring your lunch. Beverages and dessert will be served. Pick up your copy at the front desk. Author MJ Pettengill will be leading our book discussion! The year is 1872. The Civil War has ended, leaving behind a nation torn and economically depressed. Etched in Granite is a harrowing account of life and death on a rural New England Poor Farm – a tragic, yet triumphant novel that tells a story of courage, survival, and secrets surrounding lost love. The story is narrated by the three principal characters: Abigail, a young woman facing unimaginable hardship; Nellie, an Abenaki elder and healer enduring great loss; and Silas, a spirited farm boss. Their unforgettable stories are carefully woven together to reveal a hidden part of America’s somber past. The novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a pauper cemetery in New Hampshire where there are 298 numbered graves.
January 10, 2019 @ 10:30 am: Mystery Book Group
The Mystery Book Group will be reading The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan. From GoodReads: "Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding that Zoe do the same.
Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the performance of Zoe’s life. But instead, by the end of the evening, Maria is dead.
In the aftermath, everyone—police, family, Zoe’s former solicitor, and Zoe herself—tries to piece together what happened. But as Zoe knows all too well, the truth is rarely straightforward, and the closer we are to someone, the less we may see."
January 31, 2019 @ 12pm: Brown Bag Book Group
We will be reading Etched in Granite by MJ Pettengill. Feel free to bring your lunch. Beverages and dessert will be served. Pick up your copy at the front desk. Author MJ Pettengill will be leading our book discussion! The year is 1872. The Civil War has ended, leaving behind a nation torn and economically depressed. Etched in Granite is a harrowing account of life and death on a rural New England Poor Farm – a tragic, yet triumphant novel that tells a story of courage, survival, and secrets surrounding lost love. The story is narrated by the three principal characters: Abigail, a young woman facing unimaginable hardship; Nellie, an Abenaki elder and healer enduring great loss; and Silas, a spirited farm boss. Their unforgettable stories are carefully woven together to reveal a hidden part of America’s somber past. The novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a pauper cemetery in New Hampshire where there are 298 numbered graves.
January 10, 2019 @ 10:30 am: Mystery Book Group
The Mystery Book Group will be reading The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan. From GoodReads: "Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding that Zoe do the same.
Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the performance of Zoe’s life. But instead, by the end of the evening, Maria is dead.
In the aftermath, everyone—police, family, Zoe’s former solicitor, and Zoe herself—tries to piece together what happened. But as Zoe knows all too well, the truth is rarely straightforward, and the closer we are to someone, the less we may see."
Online Brown Bag Book Group at Goodreads.com
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6 members
Lunch time Book Group of the Meredith Public Library.
6 membersLunch time Book Group of the Meredith Public Library.
