The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

Tuesday

December 18, 2012

Special Christmas Meeting

at

Bella’s Italian Grille

1081 West Bank Road 

(Dutch Treat for dinner)

6:30 pm

In a departure from his usual thrillers, bestselling author David Baldacci brings us this sweet holiday tale full of humor, romance, mystery, and a reminder of what Christmas is all about.

Meeting the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm

Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or

email Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org or Janie Stammen at jstammen@oplin.org

The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani

Tuesday

November 20, 2012

7:00 pm

An old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers. Beginning in the Italian Alps, the story travels by various routes to New York's Little Italy, a Hoboken factory, backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota's Iron Range and the trenches of France. Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail. She brings to vivid life the terrible ocean crossings, the tribulation of getting through immigration control at Ellis Island, and the whole look, feel and material reality of the New World. You may remember this author from the bestselling Big Stone Gap series.

Join Mercer County Library's Newest Book Discussion GROUP

Meeting the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm

Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or

email Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org or Janie Stammen at jstammen@oplin.org

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Tuesday

October 16, 2012

7:00 pm

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 
is a 2003 non-fiction book presented in the style of a novel. Set in Chicago circa 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and Dr. H. H Holmes, the serial killer who lured his victioms to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle." Both men left behind a powerful legacy; one of brilliance and energy, the other of sorrow and darkness.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Tuesday

September 18, 2012

7:00pm

For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast. At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer to Maine and to each other.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Tuesday

August 21, 2012

7:00pm

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight year old who has all but given up on love and happiness- until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

Tuesday

July 17, 2012

7:00

Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson might be returning to her rural North Carolina home to escape her failed marriage, but what awaits her is anything but a smooth, quiet healing period. Instead, Willa tosses herself into a 75-year-old murder mystery and a developing relationship with a local benefactor. This novel by Sarah Addison Allen (The Girl Who Chased the Moon; Garden Spells; The Sugar Queen) contains a poignant mix of human drama, sibling feuds, and Southern hospitality. 

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond

Tuesday

June 19, 2012

7:00 pm

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels,  A Love Story

Popular blogger and cookbook author, Ree Drummond, shares the story of her courtship and marriage to her husband, whom she refers to as “Marlboro Man”. Though Drummond grew up in Oklahoma, she never imagined she'd end up there for good. After four years of college in Los Angeles, she was only making a pit stop home before moving to Chicago. A chance encounter with a devastatingly masculine cowboy in a local bar changes everything. A rancher with deep roots in the land he works, Marlboro Man isn't going anywhere, which means Drummond has to decide whether, to be with him, she's willing to give up her dream of moving to Chicago. By the time Marlboro Man proposes, the decision is made, and she prepares to marry the love of her life and discover what being a rancher's wife will entail. Charming and bright, Drummond's story will be an inspiration to those who despair of finding old-fashioned, lasting love. 

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm 

Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

NIGHT ROAD by Kristin Hannah

Tuesday, May 15

7:00

Jude Farraday has always put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach—are bright and happy teenagers.  When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. On a hot summer’s night one decision will change the course of their lives. In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences and find a way to forget…or the courage to forgive. This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org 

TURN OF MIND by ALICE LAPLANTE

Tuesday,

April 17, 2012

7:00 pm

The bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeion suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. LaPlante's debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman's deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pmPlease pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard

Tuesday

March 20, 2012

7:00 pm

Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same in the same hospital, take turns narrating the struggles they face as children. The lives of the "birthday sisters" parallel and oddly intersect, as each struggles to find her place in a world in which she has never truly felt she belonged. sharing little except a birth date--and a love for Dana's wild and beautiful older brother, Ray--two virtual strangers will travel alternate paths winding through first love, first sex, marriage, parenthood, divorce, and trace loss...until both are forced to reevaluate themselves and each other when past secrets and forgotten memories unexpectedly come to light.


Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Tuesday, February 21

7:00 pm

The story of how seven extraordinary members of a tiny prairie community - two dedicated teachers, two young boys wise beyond their years, a pair of wonderfully idiosyncratic rancher brothers and a pregnant high school girl - come together, in the face of great difficulties, to form the most apealing extended family in contemporary fiction.

Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm

Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 or emailing Connie Gray at grayco@oplin.org