Reading Groups in Libraries
Reading groups are fun and rewarding and they change the private and personal experience of reading into a shared one.
This event runs every month
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The Winter Guest | Sarah Moss
On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside windows twinkling with fairy lights, they share a meal, pour wine, propose a toast.
Janice and Gerry may be strangers to one another, but they each have a confession to make. As the blizzard howls, the night will take an unexpected turn, and their conversation will have consequences far beyond the candlelit table.
Michael | Bob Mortimer
Michael has had a big life. A life of abundance and applause. But now he’s dead (or at least he’s pretty sure he is.)
He is given the chance to return – but it comes with a catch. He ends up back in a time he’d tried to forget. He and his mum have been forced to start again after his dad’s death: new house, new school, no mates. Worse still, his mum has a new boyfriend, a man with suspiciously close-set eyes and the word drywall tattooed on his forearm. He mostly spends his time in his bedroom, drawing cars and making Airfix models. Things seem hopeless.
But as the months pass, Michael slowly begins to find his place. Helped by new friendships and the unexpected kindness of his neighbour, Mr Graham, what starts as the worst year of Michael’s life might actually turn out to be the one that makes him. Life looks different second time around.
Time to Play | Erin Ampersand
Picture this: You’re home with your three kids, racing to get soccer uniforms washed ahead of practice when the power shuts off. Your cell phone goes dead. And a voice coming from nowhere and everywhere all at once booms: Congratulations! Your planet has been selected!
And just like that, Earth becomes the newest unwilling participant in a high-stakes intergalactic game show competition. What that means becomes terrifyingly clear as monsters drop onto the front lawn, an interface appears in your field of vision, and you – and your nine- and six-year-old sons and three-year-old daughter – are each offered a choice of supernatural abilities. Part of you wants to laugh. Your husband’s away on business, coming home late tonight. Well, he was. But you clamp down on your rising panic. It doesn’t matter how much harder it will be.
You’re a mom. Your kids need you; it’s up to you to keep them safe. You can do this.
Alpha Female | Carries Hughes
Two friends turned enemies. One dangerous secret. May the best woman win! She used to be your best friend. Then she was your worst enemy.
Now your teenage son is dating her daughter, who, along with her mother, is turning him against you. Your old friend knows your darkest secret – and she won’t hesitate to use it against you. How far will you go to keep her away from your son?
And in the battle to come out on top, can you use dirty tactics but still stay clean?
The Ghosts of the Library | Lucy Strange
Winter is closing in. During the long, dark London evenings, Matilda and her ghostly companion, Edgar, puzzle over the mystery surrounding the wisp who haunts her aunt’s theatre.
By day Matilda attends Euthalia’s, where she enjoys the ghost cat sitting on her knee during lessons, the companionship of her (living) friend Florence and helping in the library.
But there’s a spiritual presence among the stacks who seems to have yet another mystery for the supernatural sleuths to solve.
Open Wide the Doors | Mahvash Sabet
Translated from the Persian.
In March 2008, the Intelligence Bureau of Mashhad summoned Mahvash Sabet. She told her husband she would be back home in Tehran by the evening. She wouldn’t be released for ten years. The authorities would go on to arrest every other member of the Yárán-i-Irán, the community representatives for Iran’s most persecuted religious minority: the Bahá’ís.
Documenting Mahvash Sabet’s first ten months of incarceration, in Mashhad and later Evin Prison, ‘Open Wide the Doors’ is a portrait of Iranian society behind prison walls. It thrums with compassion for Iran’s thieves, prostitutes, and even prison guards.
If you keep your heart open, Sabet proves, no judge, interrogator or torturer can crush your soul.
The ADHD Recipe Book | Jacqueline Galanty
Dietitian Jacqueline Galanty explains the relationship between ADHD and food, and the simple steps that can be taken to help people manage difficulties.
The book features tips, planners and 90 easy recipes to eat well with this common neurodevelopmental condition.
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