Join us for this years Summer Reading Wrap-up Party! We are so excited to celebrate a Summer of reading fun for all ages. It's amazing how quickly time is flying this Summer and you do not want to miss out on the end of Summer fun. Raffle prizes will be drawn at this time as […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard. In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you […]
Join the Friends of the Collegedale Public Library as they host local author Tyler Boyd who will discuss his book - The Biggs Machine - Historical/Non-Fiction. Open to everyone - no library card requirement. For the first half of the 20th Century in Polk County, Tennessee, Sheriff Burch Biggs reigned supreme. From 1904 to 1948, […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Frozen River by Arial Lawhon - open to anyone, no library card requirement. A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Practice to Deceive by Ann Rule. Open to anyone - no library card requirement. In Practice to Deceive, Rule's first book-length investigative chronicle since In the Still of the Night, Rule unravels a shattering case of Christmastime murder off the coast of Washington State. presented with the clarity, […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Kill Artist by Ann Rule. Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett. “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick. The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination […]
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Homecoming by Kate Morton. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Sanibel Flats (Doc Ford #1) by Randy Wayne White. Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. It's dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger […]
