2024 Book Club Selections

October 16 at 6:00 pm – Night Owls Book Club

“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due
In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it’s too late.

November 12 at 2:00 pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild” by Nate Schweber
In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives.

November 20 at 6:00 pm – Night Owls Book Club

“Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out to retrieve what is owed, and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. But when an ill-advised boast brings her to the attention of the cold creatures who haunt the wood, nothing will be the same again.

December 10 at 2:00pm – Tuesday Teabirds Book Club

“The Paradox Hotel” by Rob Hart
A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for time travelers–in which a detective must solve an impossible crime before her own grip on reality crumbles. On any ordinary day, the Fairbanks–affectionately known to its staff as the Paradox Hotel–is packed with ultra-rich tourists dressed for a dozen different time periods, all anxiously waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. And as if that weren’t strange enough, proximity to the timeport makes for some odd side effects. The clocks run backwards on occasion, and ghosts sometimes stroll the halls–or so it’s whispered.

December 18 at 6:00 pm – Night Owls Book Club

“One by One” by Ruth Ware
Getting snowed in at a rustic mountain chalet in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. There is a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of your coworkers– and you can’t trust any of them? When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration is stranded by an avalanche, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps togetherness. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?