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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Apr
1
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, April 1st at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Life Impossible by Matt Haig.

“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 3). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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The Personal Librarian Book Discussion
Apr
8
2:00 PM14:00
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The Personal Librarian Book Discussion

tuesday, April 8th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict. In collaboration with the Borough of Glen Rock’s visit to the Morgan Library special exhibit which is the subject of the book.

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.

But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 20). The eBook and eAudio of this title is also available on the Libby app.

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Queer Lit Club
Apr
14
6:00 PM18:00
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Queer Lit Club

Monday, April 14th at 6:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.

The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.

Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.

Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 8). The eBook of this title is also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
May
6
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, May 6 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.

A house is a precious thing…

It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season.

Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 30). The audiobook of this title is also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jun
3
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, June 3 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Wedding People by Alison Espach.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting May 5). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jul
1
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, July 1 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Playground by Richard Powers.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting June 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Aug
5
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, August 5 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza.

Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie’s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara’s great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who was left behind while her husband worked in America, didn’t die of illness as family lore has it . . . she was murdered.

Thus begins a twist-filled adventure that takes Sara all over the picturesque Italian countryside as she races to solve a mystery and learn the story of Serafina—a feisty and headstrong young woman in the early 1900s thrust into motherhood in her teens, who fought for a better life not just for herself but for all the women of her small village. Unsurprisingly the more she challenges the status quo, the more she finds herself in danger.

As Sara discovers more about Serafina, she also realizes she is coming head-to-head with the same menacing forces that took down her great-grandmother. At once an immersive multigenerational mystery and an ode to the undaunted heroism of everyday women, The Sicilian Inheritance is an atmospheric, binge-worthy delight.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting June 30). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Sep
2
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, September 2 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Enlightenment by Sarah Perry.

From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community.

It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other.

A thrillingly ambitious novel of friendship, faith, and unrequited love, rich in symmetry and symbolism, Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry’s finest work to date. 

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting August 4). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Oct
7
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, October 7 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips.

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.

The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.

Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting September 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Nov
4
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, November 4 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family listeners first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting October 6). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Dec
2
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, December 2 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Clear by Carys Davies.

John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted.

Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. “Clear chronicles the surprising bond that develops between these two men…pack[ing] a great deal of power into a compact tale” (The Wall Street Journal) about connection, home, and hope—in which John begins to learn Ivar’s language, and Ivar sees himself reflected through the eyes of another person for the first time in decades.

Unfolding during the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances—a period of the 19th century which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions—this singular novel explores what binds us together in the face of insurmountable difference, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can endure despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, “a love letter to the scorching power of language” (The Guardian), Clear is “a jewel of a novel” (The Washington Post)—a profound and unforgettable listen.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting November 3). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Queer Lit Club
Mar
10
6:00 PM18:00
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Queer Lit Club

Monday, March 10th at 6:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting February 19). The eBook and eAudio of this title is also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Mar
4
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, March 4th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

A poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it.

Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.

The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbour Izzy, acting as a go-between. Izzy also feels caught in a troubled marriage. The friendship that develops between them will ultimately lead to tragedy for one, and freedom for the other.

Addictive as Big Little Lies with a depth and compassion that rivals the works of Claire Keegan, Elizabeth Strout, and Colm Tóibín, The Coast Road is a story about the limits placed on women’s lives in Ireland only a generation ago, and the consequences women have suffered trying to gain independence. Award-winning Irish author Alan Murrin reminds us of the price we are forced to pay to find freedom.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting February 3). The eBook of this title is also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Feb
4
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, Feburary 4th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years

July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting January 6). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jan
7
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, January 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo.

Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.

Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all, she's a mother seeking vengeance. Hunting a murderer, the trail will take her from northern China to Japan, with Bao following doggedly behind. And as their paths draw ever closer together, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.

The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about old loves and second chances, the depth of maternal bonds, and ancient folktales that may very well be true.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting December 2). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Dec
3
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, December 3rd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community-heaven and earth-that sustain us.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting November 2). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Nov
12
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, November 12th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting November 11). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Oct
1
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, October 1st at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting September 30). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app. The audiobook is also available on Hoopla.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Sep
3
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, September 3rd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Vogue, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Post, She Reads, Bookreporter

An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting August 5). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Aug
6
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, August 6th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Pole by J.M. Coetzee.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships. Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential—and provocative—authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want to think about” (Washington Post), Coetzee here challenges us to interrogate our preconceptions not only of love, but of truth itself.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting July 1). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jul
2
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, July 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting June 3). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jun
4
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, June 4th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition-era Virginia.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting May 6). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
May
7
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, May 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Maid by Nita Prose.

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting April 1). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Silent Book Club
Apr
3
7:00 PM19:00
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Silent Book Club

Wednesday, APRIL 3RD at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Apr
2
2:00 PM14:00
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Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, April 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li.

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 4). The eBook of this title are available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

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Silent Book Club
Mar
6
7:00 PM19:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Silent Book Club

Wednesday, March 6th at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Mar
5
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, March 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting February 1). The eBook & audiobook of this title are available on the Libby app, and the eBook is also available on the Hoopla app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Silent Book Club
Feb
7
7:00 PM19:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Silent Book Club

Wednesday, February 7th at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Feb
6
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, February 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting January 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are available on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Silent Book Club
Jan
3
7:00 PM19:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Silent Book Club

Wednesday, January 3rd at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jan
2
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, January 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.

On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting December 1). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on both the Libby and Hoopla app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Dec
5
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, December 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk beginning November 1 and on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Nov
7
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, November 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult. 

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.

Copies will be available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Oct
3
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, October 3rd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman. 

Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School until she recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors, which changes her life in ways she never could have imagined.

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby and Hoopla apps.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Sep
5
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, September 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Finding Me by Viola Davis. 
"A fulfilling narrative of struggle and success... Her gorgeous storytelling will inspire anyone wishing to shed old labels." -Los Angeles Times 
Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Aug
1
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki.  An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jul
11
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, July 11th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Guncle by bestselling author Steven Rowley. A warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Jun
6
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, June 6th at 2:00 pm

English author and screenwriter David Nicholls’s contemporary novel Us tells the story of fifty-four-year-old Douglas Petersen who attempts to both save his marriage and heal his relationship with his moody son while on a family trip to Europe. With humor and pathos, Nicholls explores the dynamics of marriage and family relationships, and the aftermath of divorce. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. This title is also available to download on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Register here for a reminder.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
May
2
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, May 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us as we discuss Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath. This is the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. From radical and impetuous IRA terrorists such as Dolours Price, who was planting bombs and targeting informers when she was barely out of her teens, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace by betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his IRA past. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk or on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Apr
4
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, April 4th at 2:00 pm

Join us in discussing Richard Roper's How Not To Die Alone. Andrew's job is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't mean for the misunderstanding to happen, yet he's become trapped in his own white lie. The fantasy of his wife and two kids has become a pleasant escape from his lonely one bedroom with only his Ella Fitzgerald records for company. But when new employee Peggy breezes into his life like a breath of fresh air, Andrew is shaken out of his routine. She doesn't notice the wall he's been safely hiding behind and their friendship promises to break it down. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Register here for a reminder.

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Tea @ 2 Book Club
Mar
7
2:00 PM14:00
Adult Event, Book Club

Tea @ 2 Book Club

Tuesday, March 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to discuss Button Man by Andrew Gross. A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.  Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Also downloadable on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Click here for a reminder via LibCal.

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