
Library Book Clubs.
The Orangeville Library hosts two book clubs that adults are welcome to join. Learn more below and sign up through our online form here.
“Bookish Banter” Book Club
This all-genres book club for adults meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the Orangeville Library. The group is led by OPL board vice-president, Chrissy Bardo, and reads a variety of genres including historical fiction, biography, fantasy, mystery, young adult, and more. Sign up online here or contact the Library (email or 570-683-5354) for more information!
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No meeting in September. Two books will be discussed at the October meeting (see details below).
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Amish Snow White: The Amish Fairytale Series (book 1) by Ashley Emma // An heiress on the run. A heartbroken Amish man, sleep-walking through life. Can true love's kiss break the spell?
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager // A woman returns to the house made famous by her father's bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?
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Pines (Wayward Pines 1) by Blake Crouch // One way in. No way out. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation turns up more questions than answers.
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Confessions of a Christmasholic by Joss Wood // Sutton Alsop hates Christmas. So much so, when confronted with a house that looks like Santa himself vomited Christmas all over it, she accidentally (drunkenly) destroys every fairy light, fake reindeer and candy cane in sight. Unfortunately for Sutton, this house belongs to none other than Gus Langston, single dad and owner of the village's year-round Christmas shop - aka Mr. Christmas himself. But Mr. Christmas has a secret only Sutton knows...
Past books include: Into Africa (McDonald & Coles); Extinction (Preston); Thanksgiving (Evanovich); Santa’s Little Yelpers (Rosenfelt); Camino Island (Grisham); Hillbilly Elegy (Vance); The Green Mile (King); Plainsong (Haruf); Nein, Nein, Nein (Stahl); The Book Haters' Book Club (Anthony); The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (McBride); A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (Kingfisher)
“Murder on the Mind” Book Club
This murder mystery / psychological thriller book club for adults, led by assistant librarian Katie Simpson, meets the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the Orangeville Library. Sign up online here or contact the Library (email or 570-683-5354) for more information!
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The Escape Room by Megan Goldin // In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost. Invited to participate in an escape room challenge as a team-building exercise, the competitive coworkers crowd into the elevator of a high-rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition—they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival. As tempers fray and the clues to break free turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: Which one of them will kill in order to survive?
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Gone For Good by Joanna Schaffhausen // The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after 20 years with no trace of him, many believe that he’s gone for good. Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she’s at a murder scene with the worst kind of deja vu, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago Homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it right and to heal her family, but first she has to figure out how to see a killer who may be standing right in front of you.
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An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen // When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking… and what she’s hiding. Caught in a web of deceit and paranoia, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.
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Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict // In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train from London to the Highlands derails, along with the festive plans of its travelers. With the train buried in snow in the middle of nowhere, the passengers only have one another. As a killer tries to pick passengers off one by one, former Met Detective Roz Parker can’t resist one last investigation, but murder in a locked room is a formidable puzzle for even the most seasoned investigator.
Past books include: Lock Every Door (Sager); A Flicker in the Dark (Willingham); Behind Closed Doors (Paris); Xmas Break (Rowney); A Good Girl's Guide To Murder (Jackson); The Crash (McFadden); The Woods (Coben); Worst Case Scenario (Newman); You Killed Me First (Marrs); If Something Happens To Me (Finlay); Blood Sugar (Rothchild); We Were Liars (Lockhart)