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Glocester Libraries Book Discussion Groups

Harmony Library Book Discussion Groups
Second Thursday Book Discussion
Meetings begin at 1:30 PM
The Second Thursday Book Discussion Group meets the second Thursday of the month in the community room at the Harmony Library.

Booklist for 2022-2023
  • September 8: The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
  • October 13: Half Broke Horses by DJeannette Walls
  • November 10: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
  • No meeting in December
  • January 12: My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnston
  • February 9: Read Across RI selection
  • March 8: The Silent Patient byAlex Michelides
  • April 13: The Color of Water by James McBride
  • May 11:  TBD
  • June 8: TBD
          Alternate Titles:
          The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Updated: June 9, 2022
Alternates:

The 57 Bus by Dashka Salter
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by I
Immaculée Ilibagiza, with Steve Erwin
The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson

               
Mystery Book Discussion
Meetings begin at 1:30 PM
The Mystery Book Discussion Group meets the fourth Thursday of the month from September to June at 1:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Booklist for 2022-2023
  • September 22: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (Cork O'Connor #1)
  • October 27: The Mist by Ragnor Jonasson (Dark Iceland #3)
  • *December 1: Away in a Manager by Rhys Bowen (Molly Murphy #15)
  • January 26 : The Lost Man by Jane Harper 
  • February 23: The Marked Man by Archer Mayor (Joe Gunther #32)
  • March 23: A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd (Bess Crawford #1)
  • April 27: City on Fire by Don Winslow (Providence, RI setting)
  • May 25: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #1)
  • June 22: Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse (Mycroft and Sherlock #2)
Updated: June 30, 2022
           Alternate Titles:
          The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club #2)
          Margaret Truman's Murder at the CDC by Jon Land (Capital Crimes #32)
          Silverview by Jon LeCarre

          Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
        
Unsub by Meg Gardiner (Unsub #1)
        
Glocester Senior Center Book Discussion
Meetings begin at 1:00 PM
This book discussion group meets the second Wednesday of the month in the multi-purpose room at the Glocester Senior Center. Meetings are held at 1:00 p.m. from September to May. Books are available at the Glocester Senior Center and the Harmony Library.

Booklist for 2022-2023
  • September 14: The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki
  • October 12: Death at La Fenice  by Donna Leon
  • November 9: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
  • December 14: Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
  • January 11: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
  • February 8: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
  • March 9: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
  • April 12: Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
  • May 10: The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
  • June 14: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Glocester Manton Library Book Discussion Group (2023)
Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion - The book selection for March 15 is All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani.
The Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion meets on the third Wednesday of the month. The meeting is held at 12:30 p.m. in the Community Room. Call the Glocester Manton Library for more information.

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401-949-2850 or 401-568-6077

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