Great Falls (First Thursday Book Club)
The Great Falls Library hosts a book club for adults year round on the first Thursday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Great Falls Library’s circulation desk or call the Great Falls Library at 803-482-2149 for more information.
This book club meets on the 1st Thursday of the month at 4 p.m. in the Great Falls Library’s Meeting Room.
Founded: June 2014
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads.
Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.
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Lewisville
The Lewisville Community Library hosts a book club for adults year round on the second Thursday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Lewisville Community Library’s circulation desk or call the Lewisville Community Library at 803-789-7800 for more information.
This book club meets on the 2th Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. in the Lewisville Community Library’s Meeting Room.
Founded: April 2019
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France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever – and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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Chester Main
The Chester Main Library hosts a book club for adults year round (with a summer break June-August) on the third Tuesday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Chester Main Library’s circulation desk or call the Chester Main Library at 803-377-8145 for more information.
This book club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 11:15 a.m. in the Main Library’s Meeting Room.
Founded:
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With gripping action and heart-wrenching emotion, Charles Martin continues to explore the true power of sacrificial love.
Murphy Shepherd’s last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He’d like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones’s brother must be stopped, and there are so many who need to know that they are worth rescuing.
As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn–both physically and mentally. And then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Without a trace.
Murphy lives by the mantra that love shows up. But how can he do that when he has no leads? With heart-stopping clarity, The Record Keeper explores the true cost of leaving the ninety-nine to find the one.
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Fort Lawn Community Center Book Club
The Fort Lawn Community Center hosts a book club for adults year round on the second Tuesday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Chester Main Library’s circulation desk or call the Chester Main Library at 803-377-8145 for more information.
This book club meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 10:30 a.m. in the Fort Lawn Community Center.
Founded: October 2022
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Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal—until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again…
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Chester Main Saturday Mystery Book Club
The Chester Main Library hosts an additional book club for adults during the months of June to August on the second Saturday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Chester Main Library’s circulation desk or call the Chester Main Library at 803-377-8145 for more information.
This book club meets on the 2nd Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. in the Chester Main Library Meeting Room.
Founded: June 2023
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When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.
At a Halloween party, Joyce–a hostile thirteen-year-old–boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer…
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Chester Teen (R4L – Reading for Life)
The Chester Main Library hosts a book club for teens in grades 6 to 8 during the school year on the third Thursday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Chester Main Library’s circulation desk or call the Chester Main Library at 803-377-8145 for more information.
This book club meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m..
Founded: September 2020
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Tight: Lately, Bryan’s been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .
Bryan knows what’s tight for him–reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he’s from, and that gets him tight, wound up.
And now Bryan’s friend Mike pressures him with ideas of fun that are crazy risky. At first, it’s a rush following Mike, hopping turnstiles, subway surfing, and getting into all kinds of trouble. But Bryan never really feels right acting so wrong, and drama really isn’t him. So which way will he go, especially when his dad tells him it’s better to be hard and feared than liked?
But if there’s one thing Bryan’s gotten from his comic heroes, it’s that he has power–to stand up for what he feels . . .
Torrey Maldonado delivers a fast-paced, insightful, dynamic story capturing urban community life. Readers will connect with Bryan’s journey as he navigates a tough world with a heartfelt desire for a different life.
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Lewisville Teen (R4F – Read 4 Fun)
The Lewisville Community Library hosts a book club for teens in grades 6 to 8 during the school year on the fourth Thursday of the month. If you are interested in joining, you should stop by the Lewisville Community Library’s circulation desk or call the Lewisville Community Library at 803-789-7800 for more information.
This book club meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 4:00 p.m..
Founded: January 2022
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The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class–or any class; and Elaine (rhymes with pain). The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117.
Their teacher is Mr. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He was once a rising star, but his career was shattered by a cheating scandal that still haunts him. After years of phoning it in, he is finally one year away from early retirement. But the superintendent has his own plans to torpedo that idea–and it involves assigning Mr. Kermit to the Unteachables.
The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction–and maybe even a shot at redemption.
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