Join us for book discussions during the month of March at Newton Public Library! These friendly gatherings are open to the public, no registration needed.
Books are available to borrow about a month before each discussion. You’re welcome to check out any or all of the book club picks and read along with us, whether or not you can attend.
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TALK About Literature in Kansas – 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4
There There, by Tommy Orange. Join us for the first installment of our spring TALK series! Thanks to support from Humanities Kansas, the guest leader for our discussion of There There will be Gene Chavez. For more information on this spring’s TALK series, click here.
Prime Suspects Book Club – 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 5
Triptych, by Karin Slaughter. In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. This cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread, and Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael’s lover, before she became his enemy.
Strange New Worlds Book Club – 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11
Storm Front, by Jim Butcher. “My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I’m a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I’m the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I’m the only one there.” On the trail of a criminal, Harry ventures into Chicago’s dangerous underbelly, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of crimes.
Nonfiction Book Club – 12 p.m. Friday, March 14
Rogues, by Patrick Radden Keefe. Features that originally appeared in The New Yorker are brought together to form an enthralling, deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them. Keefe explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, and he examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, among other bravura works of literary journalism.
Boundless Bookworms – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20
Playground, by Richard Powers. Four lives are drawn together on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores the last wild place we have yet to colonize.
Sugar & Spice Book Club – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27
The Seven Year Slip, by Ashley Poston. One day, Clementine finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.