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The Preakness Page Turners Discussion Group will meet on April 10, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

 

Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.

Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure,
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The Classics Fiction Discussion Group will meet on April 12, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Padden at 973-694-4272 X 5410.

 

SUN ALSO RISES

Ernest Hemingway

In the socially dislocated period after World War I, an American expatriate and a British peeress conduct a hopeless love affair
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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on April 16, 2019 @ 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Patty Slezak at 973-694-4272 X 5416.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill...

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The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet on April 17, 2019 @ 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Zerbe or Deborah Rosenblatt at 973-694-4272 X 5401.

The President Is Missing

Bill Clinton · Little, Brown and Company and Knopf
Format: Audiobook

The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?

An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton...
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The Monthly Monday Book Talk Group will meet on April 22, 2019 @ 6:15 p.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Eleana Cordova at 973-694-4272 X 5406

Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long...
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The Romantic Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on May 1, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the Preakness Branch Library. 
Come join us and meet author Lisa Verge Higgins!
Any questions contact Janette Pardo 973-694-7110 X5603.

The Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet on May 1, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m. in the meeting room at the Main Library. Any questions please contact Pat Padden at 973-694-4272 X 5410.

 

The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Daniel Stone

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.

In the nineteenth century, American meals were about sub
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