Book Clubs

African American Book Club

Join us as we read and discuss African-American literature each month. Books will include fiction and non-fiction. Stories might be about black lives, or stories might be written by black authors. Books are available for checkout on the hold shelf in the circulation area.

Meets on May 22nd
6 – 7:30 PM
This Close to Okay
By Leesa Cross – Smith

On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man precariously standing at the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee. What she doesn’t realize is that he isn’t the only one who needs healing—and they both are harboring secrets.

GoodReads Book Club

We are hosting a no-pressure online book club. Every two months a new book will be chosen and discussion questions will be added. Please answer the questions whenever works best for you! Books will be available for checkout on the holds shelf in the circulation area.

To register:

Email Hope at hstandifer@mapld.org to get the registration link. You also must have a Goodreads account to participate.

The Selection For May 1st- June 30th

Indigo Isle
by T.I.Lowe

Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots….. until her latest gig lands her a stone’s throw from everything she left behind.

Morning Book Club

Morning Book Club is back in September. Refreshments will be served. Books are available for checkout four weeks before the discussion date. Meet on the 4th Monday of the month. Books are available for checkout on the holds shelf in the circulation area. 

Meets on May 20th
The featured book is

10:15 – 11:45 AM
Night Watchman
By Louis Erdrich

Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.