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Fiction Addiction Book Club – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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

Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. […]

Crime Reads Book Club: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

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

Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak. NATIONAL BESTSELLER · OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER “I loved it." —Stephen King From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

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

*Note - We normally plan to meet the last Tuesday of the month at 6:00 PM but this meeting has been adjusted to accommodate those who participate in trick or treating on Tuesday, 10/31/23. For October Fiction Addiction will be reading and discussing Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES […]

Crime Reads Book Club: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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

In every person's story, there is something to hide... The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic […]

Crime Reads Book Club: We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

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

We Were Never Here” by Andrea Bartz is an involving domestic thriller; there are not too many surprises for anyone who reads a lot in the genre, but a tight plot and taut pacing makes it hard to put down. Kristen and Emily have been best friends since college. Both had solitary upbringings, and they […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the […]

Crime Reads Book Club: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

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

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at […]

Crime Reads Book Club: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict

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

The Instant New York Times Bestseller!  A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary […]

Crime Reads Book Club: Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

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

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joetta

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

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, character-driven” ( Booklist ) life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in […]