Books and Brew Book Club
Select Wednesdays, 7 PM
In-person at Juan Murphy’s, located at 796 Main Street. We will meet on the back patio.
Registration required for each event.
June 16: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
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A field guide to dropping out of the attention economy; learning to rethink and guard one’s focus and one’s wallet.
July 21: Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
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A truly modern love story set in the summer playgrounds of the privileged class. Delicious food and fashion notes punctuate this comedy of manners at the intersection of two cultures. From the author of Crazy Rich Asians.
August 18: You Never Forget Your First by Alex Coe
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A fresh biography of George Washington crafted from rigorous research and unsentimental storytelling that separates the man from the legend.
Virtual Graphic Novel Book Club
Select Thursdays at 7 PM
Virtual via Zoom. Registration required.
June 17: Y: the Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword by Brian K. Vaughn
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(Please read volumes 1, 2 and 3 prior to this discussion) After a devastating plague, Yorrick Brown is the last man left alive in a world of women. On the run from Amazon extremists, Yorrick’s friends leave him in the care of Agent 711, who turns out to be more sinister than expected.
July 8: Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
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For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones?
August 12: The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter Tomasi
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In this inspiring graphic novel, author Peter J. Tomasi and illustrator Sara Duvall show the building of the Brooklyn Bridge as it has never been seen before, and the marriage of the Roeblings—based on intellectual equality and mutual support—that made the construction of this iconic structure possible.
Mystery Monday: Female Private Detectives
Mondays at 11 am – 12 pm
Virtual with Limited In-Person Seating at Boardman Road Branch Library. Registration required for each event.
June 28: The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
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Quirky private investigator Vish Puri relies on disguises and Delhi’s secret network of corrupt Indian bureaucracy to find clues about the missing, and likely dead, maid of a local lawyer.
July 26: The Chalice of Blood by Peter Tremayne
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Set in the year 670 on an island off the coast of Scotland, Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf investigate the puzzling murder of an eminent scholar of the Celtic Church. A medieval ‘locked room’ mystery.
August 30: The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
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While a Civil War rages in 12th century England, Brother Cadfael needs all of his wits to track two orphaned nobles and a nun who are fleeing the war’s violence and determine who is responsible for brutally attacking a monk.