Monthly Book Discussion Group

Name: Monthly Book Discussion Group
Start: 2024-09-28T09:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-28T10:30:00-04:00
Location: Frankfort Community Public Library

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 09:30 am to 10:30 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Frankfort Community Public Library | Frankfort, IN

Join us at Harry's Coffee Bar for engaging conversations as we dive deeper into the book of the month, sharing our thoughts and interpretations.
Our Book Discussion Group convenes on the last Saturday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in Harry's Coffee Bar (unless otherwise noted). It's open to everyone, and no registration is needed. Copies of the books will be available at the Frankfort Library.
Get ready for insightful conversations and literary exploration!
January 27
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
February 24
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
A gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show.
March 30
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
This epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature, chronicling David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life as he encounters villains, saviors, eccentrics, and grotesques. Dickens' great novel is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.
April 27
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens’ novel, David Copperfield. While Kingsolver's novel is similarly about a boy born into poverty, Demon Copperhead is set in Appalachia and explores contemporary issues.
May 18*
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, and honor.
June 29
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and well-loved novels.
July 20*
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench
August 31
Eleanor by David Michaelis
A breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women.
September 28
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as White in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.
October 26
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
A riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country—and how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down. Compelling and chillingly resonant with our own time.
November 23*
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II - The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both.
December 14*
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fiction novel. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to rescue the Murrys' father and fight back The Black Thing that has intruded into several worlds.