Crime Reads Book Club: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Book of Lost Name

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting […]

Local Author Visit: Nathaniel K. Gee’s The Business Proposal

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Join the Collegedale Friends of the Library as they host local author Nathaniel K. Gee who will discuss his book - The Business Proposal. Byron loves his job as a marriage counselor but is disappointed when he begins to lose clients because of his marital status. Julie is similarly frustrated with the world's view that […]

Adult Craft: Upcycled Patriotic Wreath

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

*We are adjusting the time of the Adult Craft to a 5:30 start time beginning with this month's program. We will be making upcycled patriotic wreaths in time for Memorial Day and Summer home decor. We will use floral foam wreath forms, white fabric (from the remnants of a white shirt), red/white/blue ribbons and other […]

Crime Reads Book Club: Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor. This club is open to all community members, no library card requirement! Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting mystery series set in Paris during World War II, where a detective is forced to solve a murder […]