September Book Clubs
Explore the turbulent life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Take a perilous journey across borders with a young migrant. Join the thrilling hunt for a serial killer in New Zealand. Whatever your literary tastes, our September book club picks offer a range of options. Choose from one of these selections or come and share your own recent reads. Check out (or download) this month’s books and get ready to read and discuss online or in-person. See all 2024 book club picks here.
Read and discuss great books you’ve read. Check out past recap book lists here on the blog.
Monday, September 9 at 3pm
Hybrid, meeting in-person at Haggard Library and on Zoom
Tuesday, September 10 at 7pm
Hybrid, meeting in-person at Schimelpfenig Library and on Zoom
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Available as Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Javier’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier’s trip is supposed to last two short weeks. At nine years old, he cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments.
Thursday, September 12 at 7pm
Meeting virtually – register here
Read and discuss great Chinese books you’ve read.
分享一本您读过的中文好书。
Thursday, September 19 at 7pm
Hybrid, meeting in-person at Davis Library and on Zoom
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
Available as Print | eBook | eAudiobook A tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime. Hana recognizes the murders as utu—the Maori tradition of rebalancing, whether for a personal slight or, now, for a crime committed eight generations ago. Hana realizes she is hunting New Zealand’s first serial killer and the pursuit soon becomes frighteningly personal.
Thursday, September 26 at 12pm
Parr Library
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
Available as Print | Large Print | eAudiobook
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
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