Friday, May 21, 4:00 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, May 21, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on April 23rd, if you’d like to …
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Beach Read by Emily Henry
January Anderson is out of money, out of her long-term relationship, and rage-grieving her dead dad when she pulls up to the beach house on Lake Michigan. This is the cottage her father left for her after his sudden death, …
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Dealing with Grief
Grief is as tricky as it is painful. Words that comfort one day come up short the next. It’s difficult to be that friend who knows what to say or do. The closest thing I’ve found to a manual for “being there for a suffering friend” is There is No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell.
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, May 07, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
One By One by Ruth Ware
Ruth Ware returns to the locked-room mystery in One By One.
The team behind the newest social media sensation, an app called “snoop” that is a more voyeuristic Spotify, takes a work holiday to a rustic-chic French chalet. The …
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, April 23, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on March 26th, if you’d like to …
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Five More Books for Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic
If you read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic and need something similar or if you’re on the hold list and you’re looking for something to tide you over until it arrives, here’s a few more gothic horror stories set in …
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Five Books for Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic
If you read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic and need something similar or if you’re on the hold list and you’re looking for something to tide you over until it arrives, here’s a few other gothic horror stories set in …
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on March 12th, if you’d like to …
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, April 09, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, March 26, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on February 26th if you’d like to join …
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#VeryFat #VeryBrave by Nicole Byer
If you don’t like profanity or photographs of ladies wearing bikinis, don’t read #VeryFat #VeryBrave. Nicole Byer’s book has a target audience, and it’s not you.
#VeryFat #VeryBrave is a funny, vulgar book about valuing yourself over societal beauty …
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, March 12, 3:30 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Readers looking for all the thrills of a ghost story without any body horror should check out Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.
Thanks to her father’s book, House of Horrors, Maggie Holt attained infamy at the age of …
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BYO Book Club Recommendations
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on February 12th if you’d like to join …
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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Superheroes and villains need temp-workers too – who else is going to maintain the social media accounts?
Anna is hired to build a database, but soon finds herself promoted to fieldwork (in this case, standing in the background while a …
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Like Your Narrators Unreliable?
Coined by literary critic Wayne C. Booth in his book, The Rhetoric of Fiction the term “unreliable narrator” refers to a storyteller who lies to the reader, withholding information, and casting doubt on the true narrative.
Here are a few …
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Virtual Bring Your Own Book Club
Friday, February 26, 4:00 PM.
Our BYO Book Club is going back online! Have a favorite book or two (or four) you'd like to share with fellow readers and librarians? Drop into our virtual book club to tell us about them!
Join the live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83881513185
or phone in at 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 838-8151-3185
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The Defined Dish by Alex Snodgrass
It’s January, a time when many library patrons place their holds on Whole30 and paleo-friendly cookbooks for help with their resolutions.
If you’re looking for Whole30 recipes, check out The Defined Dish by Alex Snodgrass, available as a physical cookbook …
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