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NEW MEETING OPTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose a\u00a0daytime meeting at 1 pm<\/strong>\u00a0or a\u00a0nighttime meeting at 7 pm<\/strong>\u00a0on the first Thursday of each month. Both meetings are held at the library but a virtual option will be offered at the 7pm meeting via Zoom. Please contact the library at 991-1660 or\u00a0mtlaurel@shelbycounty-al.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information or to get on the book club mailing list.\u00a0Check the calendar here for additional information.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

READING THE BOOK<\/strong>
The primary purpose of the book club is to have an exchange of ideas, which means you need to attempt to read the book. So, please give the book a try and read as much of it as possible. If you aren\u2019t able to  finish the entire book, you will still be able to participate and be a welcome addition to the group based on how much you read. Hopefully, at the end of the discussion you will be able to answer the question: \u201cDid what you hear make you want to finish the book?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

REQUESTING THE BOOK:<\/strong>
The library will do its best to supply books to all members of the book club through print copies, ebook downloads, and audiobooks. Due to the increasing number of the group and popularity of certain books, we may not always have enough books available in the system at one time. It is strongly encouraged that you read ahead or plan to get the book independently of the library if none are available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Book Club Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the upcoming Mt Laurel book club books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 2: The Overstory<\/a> by Richard Powers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 11<\/strong>: The Island of Missing Trees<\/a> by Elif Shafak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 8: A Girl Stands at the Door<\/a> by Rachel Devlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 6: Frankenstein<\/a> by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special event!  Meet local author Anne Glass (pen name Antonia Gavrihel) at the October book club. Back to One<\/a> by Antonia Gavrihel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 3: The Invention of Wings<\/a> by Sue Monk Kidd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 1: The Children’s Blizzard: A Novel<\/a> by Melanie Benjamin OR The Children’s Blizzard<\/a> by David Laskin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous Selections<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Click on the title for more information<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The Dovekeepers<\/a> by Alice Hoffman<\/td>The Hours<\/a> by Michael Cunningham<\/td>An Unnecessary Woman<\/a> by Rabih Alameddine <\/td><\/tr>
Elephant Company<\/a> by Vicki Croke<\/td>The Goldfinch<\/a> by Donna Tartt <\/td>Go Set a Watchman<\/a> by Harper Lee     <\/td><\/tr>
Circling the Sun<\/a> by Paula McLain  <\/td>The Girl on the Train<\/a> by Paula Hawkins<\/td>The Husband’s Secret<\/a> by Laine Moriarty<\/td><\/tr>
As I Lay Dying<\/a> by William Faulkner<\/td>The Wright Brothers<\/a> by David McCullough<\/td>The Master Butchers Singing Club<\/a> by Louise Erdrich<\/td><\/tr>
In Manchuria<\/a> by Michael Meyer <\/td>Cold Winter Rain<\/a> by Steven P. Gregory<\/td>The Hare with Amber Eyes<\/a> by Edmund De Waal<\/td><\/tr>
 Keeping the Faith<\/a> by Wayne Flynt <\/td>The Lowland<\/a> by Jhumpa Lahiri <\/td>This is the Story of a Happy Marriage<\/a> by Ann Padgett<\/td><\/tr>
 Lucky Us<\/a> by Amy Bloom<\/td>Audubon’s Elephant<\/a> by Duff Hart-Davis<\/td>And the Mountains Echoed<\/a> by Khaled Hosseini <\/td><\/tr>
Commonwealth<\/a> by Ann Patchett<\/td>The Love of a Good Woman<\/a> by Alice Munro<\/td>The Art of Hearing Heartbeats<\/a> by Jan-Philipp Sendker<\/td><\/tr>
Wolf Hall<\/a> by Hilary Mantel   <\/td>Defending Jacob<\/a> by William Landay<\/td>The Boys in the Boat<\/a> by Daniel James Brown <\/td><\/tr>
The Secret Keeper<\/a> by Kate Morton<\/td>A Tale of Two Cities<\/a> by Charles Dickens <\/td>The Warmth of Other Suns<\/a> by Isabel Wilkerson<\/td><\/tr>
Great House<\/a> by Nicole Krauss<\/td>Gone Girl<\/a> by Gillian Flynn<\/td>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/a> by Muriel Barbery<\/td><\/tr>
The Book Thief<\/a> by Markus Zusak  <\/td>The Nightingale<\/a> by Kristin Hannah <\/td>Whistling Past the Graveyard<\/a> by Susan Crandall <\/td><\/tr>
The Japanese Lover<\/a> by Isabel Allende  <\/td>The Painted Girls<\/a> by Cathy Marie Buchanan<\/td>All the Light We Cannot See<\/a> by Anthony Doerr <\/td><\/tr>
The Crossing<\/a> by Howard Fast<\/td>Nobody’s Fool<\/a> by Richard Russo<\/td>The Secret Garden<\/a> by Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/td><\/tr>
My Life in France<\/a> by Julia Child<\/td>Our Souls at Night<\/a> by Kent Haruf<\/td>Light Between Oceans<\/a> by M.L. Stedman <\/td><\/tr>
Strapless<\/a> by Deborah Davis<\/td>The Daughter of Time<\/a> by Josephine Tey <\/td>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/a> by Rebecca Skloot<\/td><\/tr>
Hillbilly Elegy<\/a> by J.D. Vance<\/td>The Genius of Birds<\/a> by Jennifer Ackerman<\/td>Love, Life and Elephants<\/a> by Daphne Sheldrick<\/td><\/tr>
Rules of Civility<\/a> by Amor Towles<\/td>The Blind Assassin<\/a> by Margaret Atwood<\/td>The Woman on the Orient Express<\/a> by Lindsay Jayne Ashford<\/td><\/tr>
 El Paso<\/a> by Winston Groom <\/td> A Man Called Ove<\/a> by Fredrik Backman<\/td>The Language of Flowers<\/a> by Vanessa Diffenbaugh<\/td><\/tr>
Last Bus to Wisdom<\/a> by Ivan Doig<\/td>Before We Were Yours<\/a> by Lisa Wingate<\/td>The Story of Arthur Truluv<\/a> by Elizabeth Berg <\/td><\/tr>
The Boston Girl<\/a> by Anita Diamant<\/td>T<\/a>he Bettencourt Affai<\/a>r<\/a> by Tom Sancton<\/td>The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane<\/a> by Lisa See<\/td><\/tr>
The Great Alone<\/a> by Kristin Hannah <\/td>The Moviegoer<\/a>by Walker Percy <\/td>Love by the Glass<\/a> by Dorothy Gaiter & John Brecher<\/td><\/tr>
Loving Frank<\/a> by Nancy Horan   <\/td>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/a> by Amor Towles<\/td>The Good Neighbor: The Life & Works of Fred Rogers<\/a> by Maxwell King<\/td><\/tr>
Pachinko<\/a> by Min Jin Lee<\/td>Where the Crawdads Sing<\/a> by Delia Owens <\/td>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/a> by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows<\/td><\/tr>
Carnegie’s Maid<\/a> by Marie Benedict<\/td>The Library Book<\/a> by Susan Orlean<\/td>The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding<\/a> by Jennifer Robson<\/td><\/tr>
Magpie Murders<\/a> by Anthony Horowitz <\/td>Unsheltered<\/a> by Barbara Kingsolver<\/td>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn<\/a> by Betty Smith<\/td><\/tr>
If the Creek Don’t Rise<\/a> by Leah Weiss  <\/td>Educated<\/a> by Tara Westover<\/td>Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill<\/a> by Sonia Purnell<\/td><\/tr>
The Address<\/a> by Fiona Davis<\/td>Unmarriageable<\/a> by Soniah Kamal<\/td>Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World<\/a> by Laura Spinney<\/td><\/tr>
The Dutch House<\/a> by Ann Patchett<\/td>Becoming Mrs. Lewis<\/a> by Patti Callahan<\/td>The Shadowy Horses<\/a> by Susanna Kearsley<\/td><\/tr>
The <\/a>Whistling Season<\/a> by Ivan Doig<\/td>When Crickets Cry<\/a> by Charles Martin<\/td>Death Comes for the Archbishop<\/a> by Willa Cather<\/td><\/tr>
Firefly Lane<\/a> by Kristin Hannah<\/td>Anything is Possible<\/a> by Elizabeth Strout<\/td>The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters<\/a> by Laura Thompson<\/td><\/tr>
Lady Clementine<\/a> by Marie Benedict<\/td>Murder on the Orient Express<\/a> by Agatha Christie  <\/td>Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto<\/a> by Tilar J Mazzeo<\/td><\/tr>
The Island of Sea Women<\/a> by Lisa See <\/td> The Lincoln Highway<\/a> by Amor Towles<\/td>When We Were Young and Brave<\/a> by Hazel Gaynor<\/td><\/tr>
The Taking of Jemima Boone<\/a> by Matthew Pearl<\/td>The Giver of Stars<\/a> by Jojo Moyes<\/td>Surviving Savannah<\/a> by Patti Callahan Henry<\/td><\/tr>
The Overstory<\/a> by Richard Powers<\/td> <\/td>Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America<\/a> by Beth Macy<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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