Suspense/Thriller Book Club
Meets the second Thursday of each month at 5:15pm (unless noted).
Next meeting:
Thursday, April 13 @ 5:15pm
April’s Selection: “The Other Woman” by Sandie Jones
“HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam’s perfect, the man she thought she’d never meet. BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. AND SHE’LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn’t choose his mother Pammie. There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever.”
Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk. Generally, large print and audiobooks are also available.
May’s Selection: “All the Missing Girls” by Megan Miranda
Daytime Discussions
Meets the fourth Monday of each month at 10:30am (unless noted).
Next meeting:
Monday, April 24 @ 10:30am
April’s Selection: “Joseph Anton: A Memoir” by Salman Rushdie
“On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.”
Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk. Generally, large print and audiobooks are also available.
May’s Selection: “Passage” by Connie Willis