cary area public library district

adult book discussion group

Groups meet Wednesdays @ 10:30 am & Thursdays @ 7:30 pm.

To Join, or for more information, please call the Adult Services Desk.
Books available @ the Adult Services Desk.

Fall Books

Race by Richard North Patterson
Wednesday, September 24 @ 10:30 am
Thursday, September 25 @ 7:30 pm

From Publishers Weekly: Sen. Corey Grace is the most charismatic and compassionate conservative Republican to ever run for president. He believes in women's choice, gay rights, gun control and stem cell research. Ordinarily, these would be suicidal platform points, but the other two candidate-- a bombastic but honorable hard-line evangelist and a loutish Senate majority leader who is backed by a Machiavellian media gian-- stand a good chance of splitting the far right vote. Patterson is best-known for his thrillers, but The Race is long on lore and shy on suspense. It's also filled with all-too-familiar political events and characters that are almost parodies of people living or dead.

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Wednesday, October 29 @ 10:30 am
Thursday, October 30 @ 7:30 pm

From Publishers Weekly: It is August in Comtosook, Vt., yet suddenly the temperature fluctuates wildly, rose petals mysteriously fall like snow, patches of land are completely frozen and roiling garter snakes cover the ground. Suspense and the supernatural are artfully interwoven in this 10th novel by Picoult (Perfect Match, etc.), in which a man desperately seeks to join his fiancee in death, and a 1930s eugenics project comes back to haunt a small town in Vermont. Ever since his beloved Aimee was killed in a car accident, Ross Wakeman has deliberately put himself at risk, hoping to die. When nothing works, and a job with a paranormal investigator brings him no closer to Aimee, he moves in with his sister, Shelby, in Comtosook.

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Wednesday, November 19 @ 10:30 am
Thursday, November 20 @ 7:30 pm

From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

New @ the library

Just finished reading a great book? Want to find another? Next Reads is a service that emails you a list of new and upcoming books in the genres of your choice. Sign up and choose the Newletter(s) you'd like to receive with suggestions, from your selected genre(s), of things to read both old and new. There will be a link directly to our online catalog so you can place a hold on something you'd like to borrow. Check you email for confirmation and click on the link to finish the sign up process.
Click here to begin.

We will resume in the fall! Dates and books TBA

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