
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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Plainsong by Kent Haruf // This poignant novel weaves together the lives of a high school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelor brothers, capturing the essence of human resilience and community across four generations.
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Nein, Nein, Nein: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl // Jerry Stahl tells his story of how he came to be on a bus trip tour of the holocaust by blending personal history with actual history and adding his own perspective mostly in the way of dark humor because, sometimes, that’s all there is.
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The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony // Over the Rainbow Bookshops’ co-owner, Elliot truly believed all it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. his unexpected death opens the door for condo developers to convince his business partner to sell the store. The town and family come together to save their book store one way or another.
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)
“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 Woods by Harlan Coben // Paul Copeland, a New Jersey county prosecutor, is still grieving the loss of his sister from twenty years ago—the night she walked into the woods, never to be seen again. But now, a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to the disappearance. The victim could be the boy who vanished along with Paul's sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family's past threaten to tear apart everything Paul has been trying to hold together...
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Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman // When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications. The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 is Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now. In this heart-stopping thriller, ordinary people (power plant employees, firefighters, teachers, families, neighbors, and friends) are thrust into an extraordinary situation as they face the ultimate test of their lives.
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You Killed Me First by John Marrs // It’s November 5th, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in - she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months. Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretense of friendship, but each harbors her own deadly secret - and newcomer Liv sense something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors. As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn… But who will it be?
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)