Book Clubs sessions are hosted on Zoom. Check individual date listings for book titles and a description of the session. Please inquire about available alternate book formats as needed.

Registration opens one month before each session. Zoom links will be provided after registering.

Online

May 6, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles

By turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles's debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine's Day in the dead of a winter storm. Finalist, CBC Canada Reads. Finalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Ebook link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12248733

May 20, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Special Edition: An Evening with Samantha Bailey. Registration begins April 29th.(Register)

June 17, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

All the Names by José Saramago

A perfect pick for Portuguese Heritage Month, Nobel prize-winning author Jose Saramago tells the story of a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman–but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.

Ebook link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11990742

July 15, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

Ebook link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11783580

August 12, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

To Be Honest: A Memoir by Michael Leviton

This is a memoir about one man's strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty. By the time he was 29, he had told only three lies in his entire life.

Ebook link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12463823

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