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 Chrissy Bardo (OPL board vice-president) 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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Not meeting in July. Two books will be discussed in August. (See meeting below for details.)
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The Declaration of Independence History Highlights: Explore the Conflict, Courage, Vision, and Legacy of America’s Independence by Bill Wiemuth // In honor of America250, a short narrative journey through the dramatic events, debates, and personalities that gave rise to America’s founding creed.
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn // Unlike people, books will never let you down… Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet, Alix Watson takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian, who takes a dazzled Alix under her wing. Before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect.
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Lamentation by C.J. Sansom // In Summer 1546, King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. The Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry’s sixth wife—Queen Catherine Parr. The Queen has authored a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King’s attention, it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. The secret book has inexplicably vanished, and only one page has been recovered—clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer.
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Variant by Robison Wells // Benson thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence, where video cameras monitor his every move, and where breaking the rules equals death. All Benson wants is to find a way out. But when he stumbles upon the real secret the school has been hiding, he realizes that escape may be impossible.
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Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb // No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York’s most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer who likes to dress up as Santa Claus, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. As the murders continue, Eve enters into an elite world of people searching for their one true love…
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Humbug Hijinks by Kristi Holl // Maggie Watson and her friends are putting on a local production of A Christmas Carol, but tensions arise and a handful of morale-crushing events have everyone in the play saying, “Bah humbug”. When more sinister incidents begin, it becomes clear to Maggie that someone will stop at nothing to derail the production before the curtain goes up on opening night. Can Maggie and her friends in the historical society discover the key player behind these increasingly frightful incidents before somebody breaks a leg for real—or much worse?
Past books include: The Book Haters' Book Club (Anthony); The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (McBride); A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (Kingfisher); Amish Snow White (Emma); Home Before Dark (Sager); Pines (Crouch); Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Clark); It Had To Be You (Clark & Burke); Code Name Verity (Wein); Deception Point (Brown); Remarkably Bright Creatures (Van Pelt); Bones of the Lost (Reich)
“Murder on the Mind” Book Club
This murder mystery / psychological thriller book club for adults, led by Katie Simpson (OPL staff), 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 Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead // While in college in New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tiny Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.
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Gray After Dark by Noelle Ihli // When a tragic accident sidelines Miley’s dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge. Miley’s plans take a terrifying detour when she’s abducted during a morning run. Held captive in a desolate off-grid cabin, she’ll have to use her athletic prowess, cunning mind, and courage to survive.
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If You Lie by Caleb Stephens // Seven years ago, Olivia woke up in the trunk of a stranger’s car, and barely escaped with her life. Now, she’s a true-crime podcaster on a mission to help other women avoid her fate. When Olivia’s estranged sister invites her to reconnect on an exclusive cruise, she jumps at the chance for a break. The ship is elegant, the meals divine, and the people… too friendly. When someone on the ship goes missing, Olivia realizes she’s playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Only this time, she might not survive.
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The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney // After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street, she is instantly drawn to the space—and its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home’s previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people, and experiences the same terror, as the girl before.
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The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell // Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion. But Libby’s not the only one waiting for this day—there are three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.
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The Final Hunt by Audrey J. Cole // After John disappeared while hunting—presumed dead from a bear attack—Cameron found the crime photos. Everyone has a secret. But if her husband could hide the unimaginable from her, who’s to say he’s truly dead?
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No Exit by Taylor Adams // College student Darby gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado, forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop with four complete strangers. Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm… and makes a horrifying discovery. A little girl is locked in the back of the van parked next to her car. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
Past books include: Worst Case Scenario (Newman); You Killed Me First (Marrs); If Something Happens To Me (Finlay); Blood Sugar (Rothchild); We Were Liars (Lockhart); The Escape Room (Goldin); Gone for Good (Schaffhausen); An Anonymous Girl (Greer & Pekkanen); Murder on the Christmas Express (Benedict); His & Hers (Feeney); The Butcher (Hillier); It’s Not Her (Kubica); That’s Not My Name (Lally); In His Wake (Zunker)