August Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. […]

October Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

Adult Book Club Book club is on Thursday, October 27th at 7:00 pm - stop in today to pick up your copy October's book club pick is Home Before Dark by Riley Sager Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on and play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that climb out of wardrobes. Maggie Holt doesn't […]

November Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by […]

January Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

December's Book (No meeting for book club for December) ~Meet Under the Mistletoe~ by Jenny Bayliss Elinor Noel—Nory for short—is quite content running her secondhand bookshop in London. Forever torn between her working-class upbringing and her classmates’ extravagant lifestyles at the posh private school she attended on scholarship, Nory has finally figured out how to […]

February Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

Bea Schumacher is a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger who has amazing friends, a devoted family, legions of Insta followers—and a massively broken heart. Like the rest of America, Bea indulges in her weekly obsession: the hit reality show Main Squeeze. The fantasy dates! The kiss-off rejections! The surprising amount of guys named Chad! But […]

March Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, 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 […]

April Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. She's not talking, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or it was, at least. But now, another one of Steve’s girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Alice’s ex–best friend. And it doesn’t […]

May Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of […]

June Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

By: Kristina McMorris A scrawled sign on a farmhouse porch reads "2 Children for Sale," capturing the desperation sweeping the country in 1931, during the Great Depression. Struggling reporter Ellis Reed's photograph of the children leads to his big break, but the consequences are unimaginably devastating. Haunted by secrets of her own, newspaper secretary Lillian […]

July Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

The Guncle by Steven Rowley Patrick O’Hara has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant — from a safe distance. His Palm Springs home and reclusive lifestyle aren’t exactly welcoming to children. But when tragedy strikes, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Patrick has no idea what to expect, […]

August Book Club

Walnut Public Library 101 Heaton Street, Walnut, United States

The Circus Train by Amita Parikh When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward? 1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena—who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio—yearns […]

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