Book Club Picks
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Kids Book Club December Pick
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Alcatraz Smedry doesn’t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world.
The Wild Robot
Kids Book Club January Pick
Author: Peter Brown
Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown.
Book of a Thousand Days
Teen Book Club December Pick
Author: Shannon Hale
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
displacement
Teen Book Club January Pick
Author: Kiku Hughes
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.
Reservation Blues
Adult Book Club December Pick
Author: Sherman Alexie
The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar.
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
Adult Book Club January Pick
Author: V.E. Schwab
A life no one will remember. A story you will never forget.
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