The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Tuesday

October 21, 2014

   7:00 pm

A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner of Island Books, has recently endured some tough years: his wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and his prized possession--a rare edition of Poe poems--has been stolen. Over time, he has given up on people, and even the books in his store, instead of offering solace, are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too rapidly. Until a most unexpected occurrence gives him the chance to make his life over and see things anew.  

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Tuesday

September 16, 2014

 7:00 pm

Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award

Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one. What is the boundary between human and animal beings and what happens when that boundary is blurred are two of many questions raised in Fowler's provocative novel, the narration of a young woman grieving over her lost sister, who happens to be a chimpanzee.  One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2013 and named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction.

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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

Tuesday

August 19, 2014

7:00 pm

Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses—and then he confesses his darkest secret – he deserves to die because he had been a Nazi SS guard. And Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. How do you react to evil living next door? Can someone who's committed truly heinous acts ever atone with subsequent good behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And, if Sage even considers the request, is it revenge…or justice?

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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Tuesday

July 15, 2014

7:00 pm

From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, this is an inventive and constantly surprising story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

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 Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

Tuesday

June 17, 2014

7:00 pm

An Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 Selection, this wonderful debut novel is set in 1923, against the backdrop of the Great Migration. 15 year old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment. The lives of Hattie and the children she bears and raises, captured here in twelve luminous threads, tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage – and the driving force of the American dream.

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

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This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

Tuesday

May 20, 2014

7:00 pm

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of  Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.

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 connieg@mercerlibrary.org

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Tuesday

April 15, 2014

7:00 pm

National Book Award Finalist

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.

 

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

 Please pre-register by calling 419-586-4442 

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Connie Gray at connieg@mercerlibrary.org