There are 40 upcoming classes.
In Other Worlds (Online) - Book Discussion
Date: 01/27/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Welcome sci-fi enthusiasts and other intrepid readers!
Discuss a wide-array of SciFi movies (2nd Wednesdays) and books (4th Wednesdays)
Jan 27th: "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email. This email will also contain as the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
ebooks & e-audiobooks available via Overdrive/Libby
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Romantic Reads (Online)
Date: 01/27/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!
Discuss your favorite romance author and book or series with other fellow romance readers. You will "zoom" away with new authors and books to add to your wish list of books to read!
For this session, we will be focusing on books by the author Catherine Coulter. At your convenience, please read any book by Catherine Coulter
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Speakeasy Book Discussion (Online)
Date: 01/27/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for a virtual literary happy hour. 4th Wednesdays; 7 - 8 pm.
January 27 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected].
Global Reads Adult Book Group (Online)
Date: 02/01/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Read and discuss a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books on different cultures around the world as well as immigrant fiction.
1st Mondays; 7- 8 pm.
Join for an online discussion of the following titles:
February 1st: The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem
March 1st: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Read. Think. Talk.
Date: 02/01/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Please join us to discuss a variety of thoughtful works before they are award winning movies and television shows!
Ubik is a available as a ebook and included in Four Novels on the 1960s/Phillip K. Dick.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Veterans Book Group 2021 (Online)
Date: 02/02/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series. During five monthly facilitated sessions, discussions center on military experiences and a unique set of readings, which may include classics, fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. The readings relate in some way to military experiences or offer a veteran’s perspective.
Special Guest: Author Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez will join the Veterans Book Group as they discuss his book on March 2.
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty only, please. All reading materials are provided. Space is limited.
1st Tuesdays February 2 - June 1 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Veterans Book Group is coordinated statewide by Maryland Humanities
Reading Selections:
February 2: Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
March 2: Dead Soldier-The Story of the Living: Memoir Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez by Carmelo Rodriguez
April 6: Code Talker-The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
May 4: Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon
June 1: On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
Books On Tap
Date: 02/03/21Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for a virtual discussion of Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
An Inconvenient Book Club
Date: 02/04/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Gardening & Environment
Description:
Virtual book discussion. Thursdays; 7 - 8 pm.
Feb 4: Parable of the Sower - Original Novel and Graphic Novel, by Octavia Butler. Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. Please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.
Black Fiction Book Club
Date: 02/06/21Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for the Black Fiction Book Club, meeting on the 1st Saturday of the month. The February selection is Native Son by Richard Wright.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Good Reads Book Discussion (Online)
Date: 02/08/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Book discussion celebrating Black History Month:
Feb 08: The Intriguing novel, The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Eclectic Evenings (ONLINE)
Date: 02/09/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Read and discuss a wide array of fiction and nonfiction titles.
2nd Tuesdays, 7-8pm
Join for an online discussion of the following title:
February 9: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
In Other Worlds (Online) - Movie Edition
Date: 02/10/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Welcome sci-fi enthusiasts and other intrepid readers!
Discuss a wide-array of SciFi movies (2nd Wednesdays) and books (4th Wednesdays)
Jan 13th: "Interstellar"
Feb 10th: "What We Do In the Shadows"
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email. This email will also contain as the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
January's movie selection available via contactless pickup from any branch.
February's selection available on Kanopy
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Mystery Book Club
Date: 02/10/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Read and discuss a wide array of mystery novels.
2nd Wednesdays; 7-8pm.
Join for an online discussion of the following titles:
January 13 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
February 10 - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Author works: Adam Schwartz "The Rest of the World" (Online)
Date: 02/11/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
The heroes in this acclaimed story collection are kids coming of age in a Baltimore that owes them better. They are studies of characters in crisis—delivered by a writer whose empathies illuminate the longings of teens and young adults forced to navigate complex moral choices. These teen and young adult characters rescue loved ones, plot hustles, seek redemption and refuse to give into despair. As our country grapples with who we are and the values we aspire to, this collection offers stories about resilient teens growing up in neighborhoods ravaged by systemic inequities.
By shaping kids’ struggles—their hopes and griefs and the sometimes impossible choices they confront— into narrative, Schwartz hopes to capture truths that reflect the strength, will, generosity and essential goodness so many Baltimore teenagers have shown him over the years.
Asked about what inspired him to write these stories, Schwartz says, "All eight stories in this collection are set in Baltimore, and they were all inspired by getting to know the teens in my classroom. Like many writers, I’m drawn to understand people—their struggles and triumphs, drives and disappointments, the forces that shape our identities. Writing these stories—carrying these characters around in my head—has been a way to transcribe the resilience I see in so many Baltimore teens.
"The students at my school are 16, 17, 18 or sometimes even older, but they’re kids. And Baltimore puts enormous pressure on some of them. The challenges kids in Baltimore face are often the consequence—direct or indirect—of systemic inequities that have been strangling Baltimore neighborhoods for generations: disinvestment, municipal neglect, mass incarceration, few job opportunities and unreliable public transportation. How does this landscape shape teenagers’ views of themselves and their prospects? How do kids hold onto their ideals when parts of the city are unraveling around them? In what ways are they sustained and nurtured by loved ones? For children trying to figure this maze out, what is the right way forward? These are the questions I’m trying to get my arms around in the book."
Adam’s stories have won Poets & Writers’ WEX Award, Philadelphia Stories’ Marguerite McGlinn contest, Baltimore City Paper’s story contest and have been published in Arkansas Review, Mississippi Review, Popshot Magazine, Raritan, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Saranac Review. His non-fiction has appeared in the Sewanee Review, Baltimore Sun, and the New York Daily News. He has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. For twenty-two years, he has taught high school in Baltimore City.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate confirmation as well as a link and passcode to join this event. This email will also contain dial-in information if you wish to participate by phone.
| Presented with support from Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County and Worcester County Library. |
Warning Graphic Content
Date: 02/16/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Read and discuss a wide array of graphic novels. 3rd Tuesdays 7 - 8 pm.
Feb 16 The Magic Order by Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email. This email will also contain as the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 02/17/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Noontime Books (Online)
Date: 02/18/21Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for an online discussion of the following titles:
- Feb 18: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
- Mar 18: Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Apr 15: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nihisi Coates
- May 20: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
You must register separately for each discussion date.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email Beth Haynes at [email protected]
Book Corner
Date: 02/19/21Time: 11:00am - 11:45am
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Welcome to Book Corner! In this class we will talk about our current favorite reads and hear from you about your favorites. We will discuss fun questions about books: who is your favorite protagonist of all times, what you love most about the genre of your choice or which book changed your perspective...........the possibilities are endless and enticing.
Join us in our Book Corner every 3rd Friday of each month to talk about our favorite subject – books!
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Romantic Reads (Online)
Date: 02/24/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!
Discuss your favorite romance author and book or series with other fellow romance readers. You will "zoom" away with new authors and books to add to your wish list of books to read!
For this session, we will be focusing on books by the author Elin Hilderbrand. At your convenience, please read any book by Elin Hilderbrand
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Speakeasy Book Discussion (Online)
Date: 02/24/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for a virtual literary happy hour. 4th Wednesdays; 7 - 8 pm.
February 24 The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected].
Morning Books With Coffee (Online)
Date: 02/26/21Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Community & Culture
Description:
Join us for our Book To Screen Series while the library remains closed:
Feb 26: Celebrate Black History Month with the monumental love story that rocked the world: Loving (DVDs available)
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
Veterans Book Group 2021 (Online)
Date: 03/02/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series. During five monthly facilitated sessions, discussions center on military experiences and a unique set of readings, which may include classics, fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. The readings relate in some way to military experiences or offer a veteran’s perspective.
Special Guest: Author Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez will join the Veterans Book Group as they discuss his book on March 2.
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty only, please. All reading materials are provided. Space is limited.
1st Tuesdays February 2 - June 1 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Veterans Book Group is coordinated statewide by Maryland Humanities
Reading Selections:
February 2: Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
March 2: Dead Soldier-The Story of the Living: Memoir Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez by Carmelo Rodriguez
April 6: Code Talker-The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
May 4: Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon
June 1: On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
Books on Tap
Date: 03/03/21Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us as we discuss Warlight by Michael Ondaatje.
Eclectic Evenings (ONLINE)
Date: 03/09/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Read and discuss a wide array of fiction and nonfiction titles
2nd Tuesdays, 7-8pm
Join for an online discussion of the following title:
March 9: Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Author Works: Brandon Hobson & "The Removed" (Online)
Date: 03/10/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson
“Brandon Hobson has given us a haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love. The Removed is spirited, droll, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to sky.”
—Tommy Orange, author of There There
In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. With the family’s annual bonfire approaching—an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray’s death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory—The mother, Maria, attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more.
Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma—a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.
Preorder The Removed (February 2021) from Books with a Past.
Brandon Hobson is the author of the novel Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the Reading the West Book Award. His other books include Desolation of Avenues Untold and the novella Deep Ellum. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Believer, the Paris Review Daily, Conjunctions, NOON, and McSweeney’s, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.
Please register with an email address to receive an automatic confirmation email with a link to join the event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you would like to participate by phone.
| Sponsored by Friends and Foundation of Howard County Library System and presented with support from Carroll County Public Library, Charles County Public Library, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County, and Talbot County Free Library. |
Author works: Kirkland Hamill "Filthy Beasts" (Online)
Date: 03/17/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
A stunning, deeply satisfying story about how we outlive our upbringings. —Kirkus Reviews
Gripping, thought-provoking, and equal parts hilarious and wrenching, Filthy Beasts is the story of a once-wealthy family whose gilded lives fell to pieces.
Following a rancorous split from New York’s upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy’s middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life: alcohol, a wealthy new suitor, and other indulgences. Kirk learns to maintain appearances and bury his inconvenient truths from the world, until he leaves the island, falls in love for the first time, and begins to discover the freedom of telling his truth.
Author Kirkland Hamill will discuss his memoir with Michaela Carter in this candid interview.
Kirkland Hamill has written for Salon and The Advocate, and was formerly the chief development and marketing officer at the National Center for Family Philanthropy. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his husband and a dog named Blue.
Michaela Carter is a writer, painter, and award-winning poet. Her novel Further Out Than You Thought was an Indie Next List Pick, and was the Arizona Republic Critic’s Pick for Best Debut Author in 2014. Her poetry won the Poetry Society of America Los Angeles New Poets Contest, has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the cofounder of the independent bookstore the Peregrine Book Company in Prescott, Arizona, where she lives with her husband and two dogs. Her historical novel, Leonora In the Morning Light, about the artists Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, and the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, is forthcoming from Avid Reader Press in April, 2021.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 03/17/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Noontime Books (Online)
Date: 03/18/21Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us for an online discussion of the following titles:
- Mar 18: Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Apr 15: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nihisi Coates
- May 20: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
You must register separately for each discussion date.
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you.
Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed.
For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email Beth Haynes at [email protected]
Romantic Reads (Online)
Date: 03/24/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!
Discuss your favorite romance author and book or series with other fellow romance readers. You will "zoom" away with new authors and books to add to your wish list of books to read!
For this session, we will be focusing on books by the author Nora Roberts. At your convenience, please read any book by Nora Roberts
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Veterans Book Group 2021 (Online)
Date: 04/06/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series. During five monthly facilitated sessions, discussions center on military experiences and a unique set of readings, which may include classics, fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. The readings relate in some way to military experiences or offer a veteran’s perspective.
Special Guest: Author Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez will join the Veterans Book Group as they discuss his book on March 2.
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty only, please. All reading materials are provided. Space is limited.
1st Tuesdays February 2 - June 1 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Veterans Book Group is coordinated statewide by Maryland Humanities
Reading Selections:
February 2: Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
March 2: Dead Soldier-The Story of the Living: Memoir Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez by Carmelo Rodriguez
April 6: Code Talker-The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
May 4: Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon
June 1: On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
Books on Tap
Date: 04/07/21Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join us as we discuss Miracle Creek by Angie Kim.
Noontime Books (Online)
Date: 04/15/21Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join for an online discussion of the following titles:
August 20: Emma by Jane Austen
September 17: Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
October 15: This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 04/21/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Romantic Reads (Online)
Date: 04/28/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!
Discuss your favorite romance author and book or series with other fellow romance readers. You will "zoom" away with new authors and books to add to your wish list of books to read!
For this session, we will be focusing on books by the author Rachel Gibson. At your convenience, please read any book by Rachel Gibson
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Veterans Book Group 2021 (Online)
Date: 05/04/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series. During five monthly facilitated sessions, discussions center on military experiences and a unique set of readings, which may include classics, fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. The readings relate in some way to military experiences or offer a veteran’s perspective.
Special Guest: Author Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez will join the Veterans Book Group as they discuss his book on March 2.
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty only, please. All reading materials are provided. Space is limited.
1st Tuesdays February 2 - June 1 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Veterans Book Group is coordinated statewide by Maryland Humanities
Reading Selections:
February 2: Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
March 2: Dead Soldier-The Story of the Living: Memoir Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez by Carmelo Rodriguez
April 6: Code Talker-The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
May 4: Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon
June 1: On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 05/19/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Romantic Reads (Online)
Date: 05/26/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!
Discuss your favorite romance author and book or series with other fellow romance readers. You will "zoom" away with new authors and books to add to your wish list of books to read!
For this session, we will be focusing on books by the author Lynsay Sands. At your convenience, please read any book by Lynsay Sands
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive the link to the online class in the confirmation email.This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Veterans Book Group 2021 (Online)
Date: 06/01/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series. During five monthly facilitated sessions, discussions center on military experiences and a unique set of readings, which may include classics, fiction, memoirs, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. The readings relate in some way to military experiences or offer a veteran’s perspective.
Special Guest: Author Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez will join the Veterans Book Group as they discuss his book on March 2.
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions. Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty only, please. All reading materials are provided. Space is limited.
1st Tuesdays February 2 - June 1 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Veterans Book Group is coordinated statewide by Maryland Humanities
Reading Selections:
February 2: Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
March 2: Dead Soldier-The Story of the Living: Memoir Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez by Carmelo Rodriguez
April 6: Code Talker-The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
May 4: Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon
June 1: On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 06/16/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
Nonfiction Book Club (Online)
Date: 07/21/21Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Branch: Online Branch
Age group: Ages 14 - 17 (High School), Ages 18+ (Adults)
Program type: Book Clubs
Description:
Join the Nonfiction Book Club to share your thoughts on a varied array of Nonfiction selections.
Jan 20 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Feb 17 - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Mar 17 - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism became an American Religion by Steven Weisman
Apr 21 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
May 19 - Amateur: A True Story About what Makes a Man by Thomas McBee
Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation with a link to join the class/event. This email will also contain the dial-in information if you wish to participate by telephone.
Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. For physical copies, please follow procedures to set up a contactless pick-up appointment once you receive a notice that your hold has come in for you. Availability of physical copies is not guaranteed. For additional assistance in obtaining this title, please email [email protected]
