Welcome to RSA Bookgroups
The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system. RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite
Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki. Please post your library's schedule if it's available. Thanks!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS FOR 2020
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
Book Club est. May 2006
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
February -
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
November -
December -
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
2020 Selections:
January 27 – Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
February 24 – Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea (this discussion is part of our NEA Big Read programming around this title)
March 23 – Becoming, by Michelle Obama
April 27 – The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
May 18 – The Nocturnal Brain, by Guy Leschziner
June 22 – The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
July 27 – The Good Neighbor, by Maxwell King
August 24 – Once upon a River, by Diane Setterfield
September 28 – The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom
October 26 – Nightwoods, by Charles Frazier (this will also be Books+Tea’s 10th anniversary!)
November 23 – The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, by David Treuer
December 21 – The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes (We’ll be meeting early at 6:00 p.m. this month)
Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Hara Reading Room at the Library.
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
February - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
Musings on Main
Book Selections 2020
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
January 9 - Any Christmas book of reader's choice
February 6 - Any title off the AISLE Abraham Lincoln 2020 Award nominees' list (Association of Illinois School Library Educators)
March 5 - The Library Book (Susan Orlean)
April 2 - The Jesus Cow (Michael Perry)
May 7 - The Chillbury Ladies Choir (Jennifer Ryan)
June 4 - The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
July - NO MEETING
August 6 - A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
September 3 - The Day the World Came to Town, 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Jim DeFede)
October 1 - Potluck meeting to choose 2021 titles - no book selection for this month
November 5 - Code Girls (Liza Mundy) AND/OR The Woman Who Smashed Codes (Jason Fagone)
December 3 - Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden (Carlo Devito)
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175
JANUARY 2020- Women Talking by Miriam Toews
FEBRUARY 2020- Furious Hours by Casey Cep
MARCH 2020- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
APRIL 2020- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
MAY 2020- The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller
JUNE 2020- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
JULY 2020- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
AUGUST 2020- A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
SEPTEMBER 2020- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
OCTOBER 2020- The Undertaker's Daughter by Sara Blaedel
NOVEMBER 2020- If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
DECEMBER 2020- Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber
After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Third Monday of each month except June, July & August at 10:00am)
FEBRUARY 2020 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
MARCH 2020 - TBD
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm
Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm
To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm
Galesburg Public Library
Please note: we DO loan our book club kits to other libraries for book discussions. Contact Jane (jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org or 309-343-6118) if you want to borrow one of our kits.
TITLES ARE TENTATIVE
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs
January 2020 – Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
February 2020 – (Black History Month tie-in) – Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub by Ron Rapoport
March 2020 – The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
April 2020 – (Big Read) - Lab Girl
May 2020 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
June 2020 – (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover) - Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba by Gordon Corera
July 2020 - (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover) - The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad
August 2020 - The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
September 2020 - The Women's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
October 2020 -
November 2020 -
December 2020 -
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
January 2020 – Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
February 2020 – How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
March 2020 – Somewhere in Time (Bid Time Return) by Richard Matheson
April 2020 – (Big Read) - Contact by Carl Sagan
May 2020 – Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
June 2020 – (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover) - Dune first half
July 2020 – (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover) - Dune second half
August 2020 - More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
September 2020
October 2020 – Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
November 2020 – Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton
December 2020
Food for Thought Book Club
February 2020 - What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Atisha
March 2020 – Sourdough by Robin Sloane
April 2020 – (Big Read tie-in to Lab Girl) - The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone
May 2020 – The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
June 2020 – (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper) - Deep Creek by Pam Houston
July 2020 – (Summer Reading tie-in Dig Deeper) - The Truffle Underground by Ryan Jackobs
August 2020 – Pride, Prejudice, and other flavors by Sonali Dev
September 2020 – Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
October 2020 – Sicker Fatter Poorer by Leonardo Trasande
November 2020 – Hungry Hearts, Elsie Chapman editor
Buzzwords Book Club
Turning Pages Book Club
Best Little Book Club by a Dam Site - Group formed fall of 2002 and named January 2003. Henry has been using variations on this theme for many years. The first instance I found was in the 1 February 1872 paper.
We meet at 9:30 on the Second Monday of the month. We generally pick 6 months of books at a time.
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Title
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Author
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January 13 |
How to be an American: a field guide to citizenship |
Silvia Hidalgo |
February 10 |
Heroine of the Titanic: the real unsinkable Molly Brown |
Elaine Landau |
March 9 |
A Spark of Light |
Jodi Picoult |
April 13 |
Maus: a survivor's tale |
Art Spiegelman |
May 11 |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
L. Frank Baum |
June 8 |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
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July 13 |
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August 10 |
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September 14 |
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October 12 |
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November 9 |
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December 14 |
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Book Buzz meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 pm.
February - Unfollow, by Megan Phelps-Roper
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 19 years in January. Meeting are held once a month at the Spring Bay Branch. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections, and the past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.
MONTH TITLE AUTHOR
January 6 Alaskan Holiday Debbie Macomber
February 3 Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
March 2 If I Run Terri Blackstock
April 6 The Story Keeper-A Carolina Heirlooms Lisa Wingate
Novel
May 4 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson
June 1 Snap Shot Lis Wiehl
July 6 If the Creek Don't Rise Leah Weiss
August 3 Defending Jacob William Landay
September 3 The Alice Network Kate Quinn
October 5 Memory Man David Baldacci
November 2 Vinegar Hill Manette Ansay
December 7 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2020(Our 17th year)
January 27
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Girl Waits with Gun
›› Join us for a Skype visit with the author!
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Stewart, Amy
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February 24
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Lee, Harper
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March 30
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Star of the North
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John, D.B.
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April 27
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I feel Bad About My Neck
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Ephron, Nora
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May 18
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Camino Island
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Grisham, John
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June 29
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Island of Sea Women
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See, Lisa
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July 27
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Last Lecture
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Pausch, Randy
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August 31
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Farm
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Ramos, Joanne
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September 28
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Spies of Shilling Lane
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Ryan, Jennifer
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October 26
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Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
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Quindlen, Anna
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November 30
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Secrets We Kept
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Prescott, Lara
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December 14th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2020
& get our new list for 2021
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Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great Reads
Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
Date |
Title |
Author |
January 8, 2020 |
Warlight |
Michael Ondaatje |
February 19, 2020 |
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border |
Francisco Cantu |
March 11, 2020 |
Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
April 8, 2020 |
Washington Black |
Ese Edugyan |
May 13, 2020 |
There Will Be No Miracles Here: a Memoir |
Casey Gerald |
Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. The group schedule is in a state of revision, but these are the dates available so far. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
Date |
Title |
Author |
February 26, 2020 |
The Indian Bride |
Karin Fossum |
Patron-run book clubs
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles, but these groups are not directly sponsored by our library.
Book Club 1
This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.
Date
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Title
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Author
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January 24, 2020 |
Everything I Never Told You |
Celeste Ng |
February 21, 2020
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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J. Ryan Stradal
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Book Club 2
This group usually meets roughly every 6 to 8 weeks and selects subsequent selections on their meeeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 2 copies of a selection.
Date |
Title |
Author |
January 22, 2020 |
The Giver of Stars |
Jojo Moyes |
February 19, 2020
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The Overstory
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Richard Powers
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There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so staff is usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long materials may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests.
When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
January 2, 2020 -- Holes by Louis Sachar (we will watch the movie)
February 6, 2020 -- Becoming by Michelle Obama
March 5, 2020 -- Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik
April 2, 2020 -- The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
May 7, 2020 -- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
June 4, 2020 -- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
July 2, 2020 -- The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir
August 6, 2020 -- Maid by Stephanie Land
September 3, 2020 -- The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
October 1, 2020 -- Dracula by Bram Stoker
November 5, 2020 -- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
December 3, 2020 -- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome!
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal meets on the 3rd Wednesday every other month
January 15 - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
March 18 - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
May 20 - TBA
July 15 - TBA
September 16 - TBA
November 18 - TBA
Contact our volunteer book club leader, Pixie for more information: ask at normalpl.org
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:45 (same book both times) I ORDER 38 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply) Beth bbradford@pekinpubliclibrary.org
Jan - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Feb - Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Hillman
March - Last Bus To Wisdom By Ivan Doig
April - The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
May - Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
June - The Huntress by Kate Quinn
July - Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
- January - no meeting
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March -The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- April - Shel Silverstein poetry
- May -The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- June -
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
- January - Native Son by Richard Wright
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March - TBA
- April - TBA
- May - TBA
- June -
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
- January - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March - Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
- April - Henry, Himself by Stewart O'Nan
- May - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- June -
20s & 30s SciFi/Horror reading group -- meets in the library on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM.
- January - The Bear and the Nightingale by Kristen Arden
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- April - The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
- May - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- June -
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
- January - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- April - Less: a novel by Andrew Sean Greer
- May - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- June -
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
- January - Book Reports! Tell us about a new book you read!
- February - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (NEA Big Read selection)
- March - The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- April - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- May - Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
- June - The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
Third Thursday Bookclub
January 16 2020: Bossypants, Tina Fey
February 20 2020: Telegram for Mrs. Mooney, Cate M. Ruane
March 19 2020: The Orphan’s Tale, Pam Jenoff
April 16 2020: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, D. McCullough
May 21 2020:Forty Rod Road, Grove N. Mower
June 18 2020: June Take the Cannoli, Sarah Vowell
July 16 2020:Lake of the Ozarks, Bill Geist
August 20 2020: Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard
September 17 2020: There, There, Tommy Orange
October 15 2020: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, J. Lawson
November 11 2019: The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott
YA Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
January - by: Chris Colfer
February - by: Rick Riodan
March - The Book Thief by: Markus Zusak
April - Dorothy Must Die by: Danielle Paige
May - by: Marissa Meyer
Youth Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
January - Recycling
February - The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
March - HiLo by: Judd Winick
April - Lenny's Book of Everything by: Karen Foxlee
May - The Great Gilly Hopkins by: Katherine Paterson
TBA - DVD viewing of The Great Gilly Hopkins
Tremont District Library
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
January -- BYO Book
February -- Rosemary
March -- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month.
We meet the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Main library study rooms. (We do not meet during June/July, due to Summer Reading.)
January 9, 2020 (1st in a Series) Agatha Raisin and The Quiche of Death M. C. Beaton
February 13, 2020 (Romance)
March 12, 2020 (New in 2019 - Nonfiction)
April 9, 2020 (New in 2019 - Fiction)
May 14, 2020 (True Crime)
BREAK FOR SUMMER READING
August 13, 2020 (Topical Book Choice - Classic)
September 10, 2020
October 8, 2020
November 12, 2020
December 10, 2020
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 5:45 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
2020
Jan 14th Cohen, Jon Harry’s Trees
Feb 11th Richardson, Kim M. Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Mar 9th Patchett, Ann The Dutch House
April 14th Moyes, JoJo The Giver of Stars
May 12th Chevalier, Tracy A Single Thread
June 9th Hannah, Kristin The Great Alone
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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