Graphic Novel Book Club

Select Thursdays at 7 PM
Virtual, registration required.
Note: These programs will not be recorded.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

March 13, register here.

Book: The Night Eaters Book 1, She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu

When their mother Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door—a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder—twins Milly and Billy are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.

April 10, register here.

Book: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet

The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels. With this graphic novel, Larcenet creates an original adaptation that is completely faithful to McCarthy’s vision.

Books and Brews Book Club

Select Wednesdays at 7 PM
In-person at Juan Murphy’s, located at 796 Main Street, Poughkeepsie.
No registration required.

Wednesday, March 19 Book: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book Two, by Emil Ferris. The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring “monster” in contemporary fiction.

Wednesday, April 16 Book:  This Time Tomorrow by  Emma Straub. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. But when she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

Mystery Mondays

Select Mondays at 11 AM
Boardman Road Branch Library
No registration required.

February 24: The Burglar in the Library by Lawrence Block.

March 31: Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon

April 28: Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron