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SUMMARY:March Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Book Club March 26 @ 7pm \nThe Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick is a historical fiction novel about four suburban housewives in 1960s Virginia who form a secret book club\, reading The Feminine Mystique\, which sparks their feminist awakening and leads to self-discovery\, new careers\, and lasting sisterhood amidst a changing world. The story follows Margaret\, Viv\,\nBitsy\, and Charlotte as they navigate societal expectations\, marital issues\, and personal ambitions\, finding courage and a new sense of purpose through their friendship and shared reading.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/march-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:February Book Club
DESCRIPTION:FEBRUARY BOOK CLUB\nNORA ROBERTS-The Awakening\nFebruary 26@ 7pm \nIn the realm of Talamh\, a teenage warrior named Keegan emerges from a lake holding a sword-representing both power and the terrifying responsibility to protect the Fey. In another realm known as Philadelphia\, a young woman has just discovered she possesses a treasure of her own..
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/february-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:January Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:ADULT BOOK CLUB \nVERA WONG’S-UNSOLICITED ADVICE for MURDERERS BY JESSE Q. SUTANTO \nJanuary 22\, 2026 7pm \nStop in to grab a copy! \nAll formats available in the library or through Libby or Palace Project \nVera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah\, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone\, Vera is not needy\, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. \nThen one morning\, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand\, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her\, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would\, she sort of … swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could\, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. \nWhat Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen\, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/january-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:December Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Walnut Public Library Adult Book Club \nTHE MOST Wonderful CRIME of THE Year\, \nNew York’s Bestselling Author ALLY CARTER \nThe bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas. \nMeet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy. She hates his guts. \nDecember 17 @ 6:30pm \nCopies available at the library AND Audio Book on Libby \n 
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/december-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club: The Retirement Plan!
DESCRIPTION:Walnut Public Library Adult Book Club \nNovember 20\, 2025 @ 7pm \nTHE RETIREMENT PLAN-A NOVEL SUE HINCENBERGS \nCopies available at the library or on Libby Don’t forget to place your hold on Libby early!! \nTHEY’D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. \nThree best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies.. But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that will delight\nreaders from the first laugh to the final twist. \nAfter thirty years of friendship\, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy\, Shalisa\, Marlene\, and their husbands- until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that\ngoes terribly wrong. Suddenly\, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages. But when the women discover their husbands have seven- figure life insurance policies\, a new dream forms. And this time\, they need a hitman. \nMeanwhile\, their husbands are working on their own secret retirement scheme and when things begin to go sideways\, they fear it’s backfired. The husbands scramble to stay alive…\nbut soon realize they may not be quick enough to outmaneuver their wives. \nDecember Book is The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year-Available on Libby
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-the-retirement-plan/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:October Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Walnut Public Library Adult Book Club \nOctober 22. 2025 \nThey were all murdered by the same man. He hunted them online\, masquerading as an eligible bachelor. Then he played the perfect gentleman\, a thick layer of charm and a thousand-watt smile hiding the fact that his first dates end in shallow graves. He’s gotten away with murder three times now. The only thing that might keep him from killing again? The women he murdered. Meghan\, Brecia\, and Skye might be dead\, but they’re not gone. They’ve found each other. And they won’t rest until they find a way to stop him.\nThe haunt is on. \nCopies available at the library and on Libby
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/october-adult-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Walnut Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Multiple copies available at the library! \nAudio and e-book also available on Boundless \nJuly 24\, 2025 7pm
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/walnut-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:June Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character\, Connor Smith\, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series-is that too much to ask? \nClearly it is\, because when an attempt is made to kill the real Connor-the handsome but infuriating con man she got mixed up with ten years ago and now can’t get out of her life-Eleanor’s enlisted to help solve the case. \nContending with literary competitors\, rabid fans\, a stalker-and even her ex\, Oliver\, who turns up unexpectedly-theories are bandied about\, and rivalries\, rifts\, and broken hearts are revealed. \nBut who’s really trying to get away with murder? \nEvery Time I Go on Vacation\, Someone Dies is an irresistible and hilarious series debut from Catherine Mack\, introducing bestselling fictional author Eleanor Dash on her Italian book tour where life starts to imitate the world in her books when she’s caught up in a real-life murder mystery.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/june-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:May Book Club: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
DESCRIPTION:After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914\, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula\, Montana. There–after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes–Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons\, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life\, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. \nA century later\, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian’s disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant\, canny\, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood\, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds\, thrillingly\, alongside Marian’s own story\, as the two women’s fates–and their hunger for self- determination in vastly different geographies and times–collide. Epic and emotional\, meticulously researched and gloriously told\, Great Circle is a monumental work of art\, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/may-book-club-great-circle-by-maggie-shipstead/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:April Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Light of Days By Judy Batalion \nWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland-some still in their teens —helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick\, taught children\, and hid families. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/april-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:March Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Walnut Library Book Club \nMarch 26 at 7pm \nEleanor Oliphant is completely fine by GAIL HONEYMAN. \nNo one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. \nMeet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions\, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza\, vodka\, and phone chats with Mummy. \nBut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond\, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy\, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk\, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. \nAnd it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. \nSoon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon\, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart\, warm\, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes… \nThe only way to survive is to open your heart.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/march-adult-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club-The Woman All Spies Fear
DESCRIPTION:Elizebeth Smith Friedman had a rare talent for spotting patterns and solving puzzles. These skills led her to become one of the top cryptanalysts in America during both World War I and World War II. \nShe originally came to code breaking through her love for Shakespeare when she was hired by an eccentric millionaire to prove that Shakespeare’s plays had secret messages in them. Within a year\, she had learned so much about code breaking that she was a star in the making. She went on to play a major role decoding messages during WWI and WWII and also for the Coast Guard’s war against smugglers. \nElizebeth and her husband\, William\, became the top code-breaking team in the US\, and she did it all at a time when most women weren’t welcome in the workforce. \nAmy Butler Greenfield is an award-winning historian and novelist who aims to shed light on this female pioneer of the STEM community.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-the-woman-all-spies-fear/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club-Butcher & Blackbird
DESCRIPTION:Walnut Library Book Club\nWednesday\, January 22nd at 7:00 pm\n“I want to ruin her so that she’s mine\, my beautiful disaster. My wild creature. My goddess of chaos.”\nWhen a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan\, they find something elusive—the friendship of two like-minded\, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.\n\nFrom small-town West Virginia to upscale California\, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas\, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering\, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. \nBut as their friendship develops into something more\, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind\, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. \nCan Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves?\nOr have they finally met their match? \nTRIGGER & CONTENT WARNING \nSexual Assault of a child is mentioned \nChild abuse & Abuse mentioned \nDeath of a parent during childbirth \nMurder of a Parent \nMedical Procedures \nCannibalism \nMurder \nKnife\, Axe\, and Chainsaw Violence
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241024T200000
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:October 24 at 7pm \nStop in to get your сору! \nI dream sometimes about a house l’ve never seen…. \nOpal is a lot of things-orphan\, high school dropout\, full-time cynic and part-time cashier-but above all\, she’s determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden\, Kentucky\, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. \nStarling\, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland\, who disappeared over a hundred years ago. \nAll she left behind were dark rumors-and her home. Everyone agrees that it’s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir\, Arthur. Almost everyone\, anyway. \nI should be scared\, but in the dream I don’t hesitate. \nOpal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. \nWhen she gets the chance to step inside Starling House-and make some extra cash for her brother’s escape fund-she can’t resist. \nBut sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House\, and Arthur’s own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts\, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around. \nIn my dream\, l’m home. \nAnd now she’ll have to fight.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/71870/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Event
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Adult Book Club\nSeptember 26 @ 7PM \nWalnut Library \nGet your copy today! \nJake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing\, playing Bingo and Name That Tune\, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age… and the cruelty of mirrors… and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books— the weird one\, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid\, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats\, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author’s experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder\, Louder than Hunger is a triumph of raw honesty. With a deeply personal afterword for context\, this much-anticipated verse novel is a powerful model for muffling the destructive voices inside\, managing and articulating pain\, and embracing self-acceptance\, support\, and love.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240725T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20240719T204444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T204444Z
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SUMMARY:July Book Club -The Book of Doors
DESCRIPTION:Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop\, shelving books\, making coffee • for customers\, and living an unassuming\, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers a lonely yet charming old man dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories; and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading: \nBut this is no ordinary book…\nIt is the Book of Doors. \nInscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings\, it promises Cassie that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them. \nThen she’s approached by a gaunt stranger in a rumpled black suit with a Scottish brogue who calls himself Drummond Fox: He’s a librarian who keeps watch over a unique set of rare volumes. The tome now in Cassie’s possession is not the only book with great power; but it is the one most coveted by those who collect them. \nNow Cassie is being hunted by those few who know of the Special Books. With only her roommate Izzy to confide in\, she has to decide if she will help the mysterious and haunted Drummond protect the Book of Doors and the other books in his secret library’s care from those who will do evil. Because only Drummond knows where the unique library is and only Cassie’s book can get them there. \nBut there are those willing to kill to obtain those secrets. And a dark force in the form of a shadowy\, sadistic woman is at the very top of that list.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/july-book-club-the-book-of-doors/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240523T190000
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SUMMARY:May Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious\, high-ranking villain seeks loyal\, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties\, supporting staff for random mayhem\, terror\, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. \nWith ailing family to support\, Evie Sage’s employment status isn’t just important\, it’s vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer—naturally\, she says yes. No job is perfect\, of course\, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying\, temperamental\, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive\, Evie. \nBut just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel\, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat…and not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn\, and someone wants to take the Villain—and his entire nefarious empire—out. \nNow Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work…and ensure he makes them pay.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/may-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240425T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20240301T201451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T202944Z
UID:71399-1714068000-1714071600@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:April Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, April 25th for our monthly bookclub! Copies will be available to checkout early March. \n“Older women often feel invisible\, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization\, but now that they’re sixty years old\, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. \nBillie\, Mary Alice\, Helen\, and Natalie have worked for the Museum\, an elite network of assassins\, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills. \nWhen the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement\, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board\, the top-level members of the Museum\, can order the termination of field agents\, and the women realize they’ve been marked for death. \nNow to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization\, relying on experience and each other to get the job done\, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman-and a killer-of a certain age”
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/april-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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UID:71390-1712167200-1712170800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:March Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 28th 7:00 PM at the library. Stop in and grab a copy to check out!\nSynopsis:\nWoodrow Wilson Nickel\, age 105\, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct\, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.\n\nIt’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe\, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events\, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones\, including the world’s first female zoo director\, a crusty old man with a past\, a young female photographer with a secret\, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.\n\nPart adventure\, part historical saga\, and part coming-of-age love story\, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals\, the kindness of strangers\, the passing of time\, and a story told before it’s too late.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/march-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20231202T205947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T210032Z
UID:25625-1706209200-1706209200@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Walnut Public Library Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin\n\nIn 1964\, Daniel Ellsberg was a U.S. government analyst\, helping to plan a war in Vietnam. It was the height of the Cold War\, and the government would do anything to stop the spread of communism―with or without the consent of the American people.\n\nAs the fighting in Vietnam escalated\, Ellsberg turned against the war. He had access a top-secret government report known as the Pentagon Papers\, and he knew it could blow the lid off of years of government lies. But did he have the right to expose decades of presidential secrets? And what would happen to him if he did it?
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/walnut-public-library-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20231104T213357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T213357Z
UID:25593-1701369000-1701374400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:November Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This will be the Book Club’s Christmas Party. Bring a book for the Grab Bag Book Exchange. There will be no Book Club in December.\n\n~ The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss ~\n\nWhen it comes to relationships\, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say “Bah\, humbug.” The sleepy town of Blexford\, England\, isn’t exactly brimming with prospects\, and anyway\, Kate’s found fulfillment in her career as a designer\, and in her delicious side job baking for her old friend Matt’s neighborhood café. But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to help singles find love before the holidays. Twenty-three days until Christmas. Twelve dates with twelve different men. The odds must finally be in her favor . . . right?\nYet with each new date more disastrous than the one before–and the whole town keeping tabs on her misadventures–Kate must remind herself that sometimes love\, like mistletoe\, shows up where it’s least expected. And maybe\, just maybe\, it’s been right under her nose all along. . .
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/november-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20231003T170040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T170040Z
UID:25550-1698346800-1698352200@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:October Adult Book Club
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URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/october-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230824T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230824T203000
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CREATED:20230801T114249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T114349Z
UID:25513-1692903600-1692909000@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:August Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Circus Train by Amita Parikh \nWhen all is lost\, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward? \n1938. 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 for the real-world magic of science and medicine\, her mind stronger than the limitations placed on her by society. Then her unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre\, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past. \nAs World War II escalates around them\, their friendship blossoms into something deeper while Alexandre trains as the illusionist’s apprentice. But when Theo and Alexandre are arrested and made to perform in a town for Jews set up by the Nazis\, Lena is separated from everything she knows. Forced to make her own way\, Lena must confront her doubts and dare to believe in the impossible—herself.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/august-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230727T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230727T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230623T121101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T184005Z
UID:25453-1690484400-1690489800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:July Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Guncle by Steven Rowley\n\nPatrick 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.\nPatrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his own great love and managing a stalled career. He regrets his decision to take them in\, until he starts to recognize that his outsize lifestyle and unusual life wisdom could bring about a season of healing that redefines their understanding of family\, and finally lead Patrick back to himself.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/july-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230622T070000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230622T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230525T114607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T114724Z
UID:25435-1687417200-1687465800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:June Book Club
DESCRIPTION:By: Kristina McMorris \nA 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 Palmer sees the image and is soon drawn into the fray. Together\, Ellis and Lillian set out ot right a wrong and mend a fractured family\, at the risk of everything they value.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/june-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230525T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230503T220540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T220718Z
UID:25412-1685041200-1685046600@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:May Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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 Japanese families\, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on\, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. \nThis simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s\, at the height of the war\, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement\, and to his father\, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary\, where the white kids ignore him\, Henry meets Keiko Okabe\, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts\, curfews\, and FBI raids\, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps\, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end\, and that their promise to each other will be kept. \nForty years later\, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower\, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern\, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. \nSet during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history\, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko\, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/may-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230417T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230407T032046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T032046Z
UID:25388-1681758000-1681763400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:April Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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 look like Brooke will be coming back. . . \nEnter Iris Adams\, Alice’s tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear\, though unlike Alice\, she doesn’t have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke’s grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughter’s whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit\, but Alice isn’t so sure\, and with Iris on her side\, she just might be able to prove her theory. \nIn order to get the reward and prove Steve’s innocence\, they need to figure out who killed Brooke Donovan. And luckily Alice has exactly what they need—the complete works of Agatha Christie. If there’s anyone that can teach the girls how to solve a mystery it’s the master herself. But the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets\, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/april-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230323T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230323T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230303T200907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T200907Z
UID:25368-1679598000-1679603400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:March Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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 strangers\, who’d happened to sit at the same table\, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/march-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20230120T195151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T195151Z
UID:25343-1677178800-1677184200@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:February Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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 Bea is sick and tired of the lack of body diversity on the show. Since when is being a size zero a prerequisite for getting engaged on television?\n\nJust when Bea has sworn off dating altogether\, she gets an intriguing call: Main Squeeze wants her to be its next star\, surrounded by men vying for her affections. Bea agrees\, on one condition—under no circumstances will she actually fall in love. She’s in this to supercharge her career\, subvert harmful beauty standards\, inspire women across America\, and get a free hot air balloon ride. That’s it.\n\nBut when the cameras start rolling\, Bea realizes things are more complicated than she anticipated. She’s in a whirlwind of sumptuous couture\, Internet culture wars\, sexy suitors\, and an opportunity (or two\, or five) to find messy\, real-life love in the midst of a made-for-TV fairy tale. In this joyful\, wickedly observant debut\, Bea has to decide whether it might just be worth trusting these men—and herself—for a chance to live happily ever after.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/february-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T223218
CREATED:20221206T133923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T133923Z
UID:25331-1674759600-1674765000@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:January Book Club
DESCRIPTION:December’s Book\n(No meeting for book club for December)\n~Meet Under the Mistletoe~\nby Jenny Bayliss\n\nElinor 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 keep both at equal distance. So when two of her oldest friends invite their whole gang to spend the time leading up to their wedding together at the castle near their old school\, Nory must prepare herself for an emotionally complicated few days.\n\nThe reunion brings back fond memories\, but also requires Nory to dodge an ill-advised former fling. When she falls quite literally into the arms of Isaac\, the castle’s head gardener\, who has nothing but contempt for the “snobby prep school kids\,” the attraction between them is undeniable. And as Nory spends more time with Isaac during the wedding festivities\, she finds herself falling hard for the boy she used to consider an enemy. Nory and Isaac explore their common ground\, but pressures mount on all sides\, and Nory must decide what kind of life she wants to live and what sort of love is worth the risk . . .
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/january-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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