The library is now offering online book clubs. What exactly does that mean, you might ask. Well, when you sign-up for a club you'll be introduced to a new book every week by receiving a 5-minute read in your e-mail Monday-Friday. By the time the week's finished you've usually read the first 2-3 chapters of the book.
After you've started the book in your e-mail you can decide if you'd like to finish it or not. If you'd like to, just check the library's catalog. If we don't have it, you can always request that we get a copy. There are also online discussions to join if you want to chat with others about the book you're reading - and it's a national chat, several of which will include the book's author.
If you decide it's not your kind of book, just wait till the next Monday and a new book will be coming.
The clubs sometimes even post notes about a book's content at the start of each 5-minute read. For example, this note appeared right before the read on one of last weeks titles: *This book contains adult language.
There's 12 clubs to choose from and you can sign up for as many or a few as you'd like. Sign-up now so you don't miss the first e-mail. (Although you can go back and catch up.) Next week's books include:
 | Rabbit in the Moon Shlian, Deborah Shlian, Joel 2008/06 - Oceanview Publishing 9781933515144 CHECK CATALOG San Francisco, 1989: Forty years after Mao and his People's Liberation Army set poised to change China forever, Dr. Lili Quan prepares for a journey that will change her life forever. To honor her mother's dying wish that Lili 'return home, ' Lili reluctantly sets out for China.For Lili, a passionate idealist, this will be an extraordinary trip filled with remarkable discoveries - from meeting and falling in love with Chi-Wen Zhou, a victim of the Cutural Revolution and zealous Taoist, to finding Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng, the grandfather Lili believed had died years ago. But Dr. Cheng has made the most remarkable discovery of all: he's discovered the secret to long life.As Dr. Cheng's only relative, Lili's life is in jeopardy. As greedy and unscrupulous men vie for control of the most earth-shattering discovery of the century, Lili Quan could beco ...More |
 | Before Green Gables Wilson, Budge 2009/02 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425225769 CHECK CATALOG This remarkable and heart-warming prequel to the classic "Anne of Green Gables" has been specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. ...More |
 
| Final Impact Birmingham, John 2007/01 - Del Rey Books 9780345457165 CHECK CATALOG " The action is nonstop, the characters very real- and very different from each other- and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think." |
 | Remember Me? Kinsella, Sophie 2008/11 - Large Print Distribution 9781594133114 CHECK CATALOG |
 | The Fate of Katherine Carr Cook, Thomas 2009/06 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780151014019 CHECK CATALOG George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared--Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son's last day. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind--a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr--Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author's brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own. |
 | The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives Jarvis, Cheryl 2008/09 - Ballantine Books 9780345500717 CHECK CATALOG BookPage Notable Title
Original, resonant, and beautifully told, this book is an inspiring story about a necklace that became greater than the sum of its links, and about thirteen ordinary women who understood the power of possibility, who touched the lives of a community, and who together created one extraordinary experience ...More |
 | Don't Turn Around Morgan, Hunter 2008/07 - Zebra 9780821779477 CHECK CATALOG Casey McDaniel, a domestic violence victims' advocate, finds her life turned upside-down after her friend's killer is set free and she discovers that someone is stalking her. Original. ...More |
 | The Red Siren Tyndall, M. L. 2009/01 - Barbour Publishing 9781602601567 CHECK CATALOG Fiery redhead Faith Westcott is a lady by day and a pirate by night. Dajon White, a brave captain in the British Royal Navy, scours the Carolina coast for pirates and smugglers. However, when he is asked to take guardianship of Faith and her sisters, he finds himself in deep water--especially when he begins falling for Faith. ...More |
 | The Only True Genius in the Family Nash, Jennie 2009/02 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425225752 CHECK CATALOG From the author of "The Last Beach Bungalow" comes a portrait of a family in all its heartbreaking complexity. ...More |
 | Perfect Selling: Open the Door. Close the Deal. Richardson, Linda Gschwandtner, Gerhard 2008/06 - McGraw-Hill 9780071549899 CHECK CATALOG Top sales trainer Richardson distills her expertise into quick tips and techniques, providing succinct lessons in structuring and perfecting the key steps of a sales call in just 20 minutes or less over a five-day period. ...More |
 | Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin Shapiro, Ronald M. Jordan, Gregory 2008/01 - Crown Business 9780307383266 CHECK CATALOG "Dare to Prepare" contains powerful and practical personal stories from business, sports, music, and medical dynamos about the most underrated way to succeed: by good old-fashioned preparation. ...More |
Sign-up for the Online Book Clubs here!
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