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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241024T190000
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240926T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
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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:20260416T001154
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240523T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20240430T171909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T171909Z
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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:20260416T001154
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240403T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240403T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20240223T185958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T201952Z
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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:20260416T001154
CREATED:20231202T205947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T210032Z
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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:20260416T001154
CREATED:20231104T213357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T213357Z
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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:20260416T001154
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
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20230801T114249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T114349Z
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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:20260416T001154
CREATED:20230623T121101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T184005Z
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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:20260416T001154
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T114724Z
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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
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CREATED:20230503T220540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T220718Z
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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:20260416T001154
CREATED:20230407T032046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T032046Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230323T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230323T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221117T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221117T183000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20221101T141113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T141113Z
UID:25284-1668704400-1668709800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:November Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThen a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool\, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire.  \nDaisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby—before her family was torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy that sent her into the arms of the philandering Tom Buchanan. \nJordan Baker\, Daisy’s best friend\, guards a secret that derailed her promising golf career and threatens to ruin her friendship with Daisy as well. \nCatherine McCoy\, a suffragette\, fights for women’s freedom and independence\, and especially for her sister\, Myrtle Wilson\, who’s trapped in a terrible marriage. \nTheir stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922\, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby’s romantic obsession\, with devastating consequences for all of them. \nJillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby\, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power\, marriage and friendship\, love and desire\, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled. 
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/november-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221027T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221027T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220928T185308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T185308Z
UID:25276-1666897200-1666902600@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:October Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Adult Book Club\nBook club is on Thursday\, October 27th at 7:00 pm – stop in today to pick up your copy\n\nOctober’s book club pick is Home Before Dark by Riley Sager\n\nBells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on and play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that climb out of wardrobes. Maggie Holt doesn’t believe in these things\, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago\, she and her parents\, Ewan and Jess\, moved into Baneberry Hall\, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night\, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a horror memoir\, House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon\, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity-and skepticism.\n\nMaggie has lived her life in the the shadow of her father’s book\, so when she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death\, she returns to renovate the house to prepare it for sale. However\, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past\, chronicled in House of Horrors\, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself-a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of Ewan’s book\, she starts to wonder if what he wrote was more fact than fiction.\n\nAlternating between Maggie’s uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father’s book\, Home Before Dark is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman’s quest to uncover them-even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/october-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220825T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220825T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220725T145744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220725T145744Z
UID:25257-1661454000-1661459400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:August Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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. It’s Brynn—shy\, quiet Brynn—who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her.\n\nBut then Allison is released to a halfway house\, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister.\n\nNow their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed\, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him\, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/august-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220725T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220725T144726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220725T145821Z
UID:25254-1658775600-1658781000@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:July Book Club
DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it’s entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft\, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad.\n\nSmart\, fiercely political\, devoted solely to the cause\, and “with nothing to lose but their own lives\,” Hannie\, Truus\, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets. That included sheltering fleeing Jews\, political dissidents\, and Dutch resisters. They sabotaged bridges and railways\, and donned disguises to lead children from probable internment in concentration camps to safehouses. They covertly transported weapons and set military facilities ablaze. And they carried out the assassinations of German soldiers and traitors–on public streets and in private traps–with the courage of veteran guerilla fighters and the cunning of seasoned spies.\n\nIn telling this true story through the lens of a fearlessly unique trio of freedom fighters\, Tim Brady offers a little-known perspective of the Dutch resistance during the war. Of lives under threat; of how these courageous young women became involved in the underground; and of how their dedication evolved into dangerous\, life-threatening missions on behalf of Dutch patriots–regardless of the consequences.\nHarrowing\, emotional\, and unforgettable\, Three Ordinary Girls finally moves these three icons of resistance into the deserved forefront of world history.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/july-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220525T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220408T200234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220408T200234Z
UID:25169-1653505200-1653508800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:By day\, 17-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night\, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady\, “Dear Miss Sweetie”. When her column becomes wildly popular\, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills\, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. \nWhile her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie\, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta’s most notorious criminal\, Jo must decide whether she\, a girl used to living in the shadows\, is ready to step into the light. \nWith prose that is witty\, insightful\, and at times heartbreaking\, Stacey Lee masterfully crafts an extraordinary social drama set in the New South.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/book-club-6/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220330T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220330T203000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220304T203522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T203522Z
UID:25161-1648666800-1648672200@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:March Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life—he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries\, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again\, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden—and as detectives close in\, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.\n\nA spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today\, The Witch Elm asks what we become\, and what we’re capable of\, when we no longer know who we are.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/march-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220223T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220223T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220216T141009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T141009Z
UID:25151-1645642800-1645646400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:“Time Will Tell” by Barry Lyga\nFour teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. But in addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes\, Walkmans\, photographs\, letters\, toys\, and assorted junk\, Elayah\, Liam\, Marcie\, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to kill anyone.”\nAs the action alternates between the present day and 1986\, the mystery unfolds and the sins of the past echo into today. The teens haven’t just unearthed a time capsule: they’ve also dug up pain and secrets that someone–maybe one of their own parents–is willing to kill for.\nBetween life and death there is a library\, and within that library\, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different\, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?\nA dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived\, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.\n“The Midnight Librarian” by Matt Haig\nSomewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books\, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is\, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been\, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?\nIn The Midnight Library\, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel\, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one\, following a different career\, undoing old breakups\, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life\, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/book-club-5/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220106T040800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T040800Z
UID:25126-1643223600-1643227200@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. But in addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes\, Walkmans\, photographs\, letters\, toys\, and assorted junk\, Elayah\, Liam\, Marcie\, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to kill anyone.”\n\nAs the action dramatically alternates between the present day and 1986\, the mystery unfolds and the sins of the past echo into today. The teens haven’t just unearthed a time capsule: they’ve also dug up pain and secrets that someone–maybe one of their own parents–is willing to kill for.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/book-club-4/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220125T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220121T132342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T132342Z
UID:25141-1643124600-1643126400@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Elementary Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Elementary Book Club will meet in the Children’s Library for book discussion and a snack.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/elementary-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220117T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220106T040957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T040957Z
UID:25129-1642442400-1642446000@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Young Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.\n\nAs the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows\, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself\, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island\, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.\nBut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. Together\, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/young-adult-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220111T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20220106T041410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T041410Z
UID:25135-1641915000-1641916800@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Elementary Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Elementary Book Club will meet in the Children’s Library for book discussion and a snack.
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/elementary-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T001154
CREATED:20210910T122224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210910T122224Z
UID:25099-1635188400-1635192000@www.walnutpubliclibrary.org
SUMMARY:Young Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Junior High and High School Students please join us for our new young adult book club! Stop into the library and grab the monthly book club pick to check out. Spend a few weeks reading the book and then join us with friends to chat about the book. We will provide drinks & snacks. Don’t worry if you can’t finish the book\, join us anyways!
URL:https://www.walnutpubliclibrary.org/event/young-adult-book-club/
LOCATION:Walnut Public Library\, 101 Heaton Street\, Walnut\, 61376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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