@Grounded Book Club
Schedule
Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 12:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Grounded Coffeehouse | Tonganoxie, KS
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This book club meets at Grounded Coffeehouse. Ask for the book club discount during our discussion time! Our reading selection for May is "The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley" by Hannah Tinti. Copies are available for checking out at the front desk or with the libby app.
From amazon: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A gripping American-on-the-run thriller . . . a brilliant coming-of-age tale and a touching exploration of father-daughter relationships.”—Newsweek
Samuel Hawley isn’t like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loo’s a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife’s hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school.
Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents’ lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history that’s darker than she could have known, the demons of her father’s past spill over into the present—and together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.
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Grounded Coffeehouse, 304 E 4th St.,Tonganoxie, Kansas, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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