Discussion Groups
A Novel Idea Virtual Book DiscussionNovember 12 at 7:00 pm and November 18 at 2:00 pm **Please note: November’s meetings will be a virtual meeting held via Zoom. Please register here to receive an email with login details. Copies of the book can be downloaded through hoopla with your Plainfield Public Library card. If you are a book club member with a library card from a neighboring library that isn’t a partner with hoopla, please contact cshelby@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org. Limited physical copies of the book may be available at the Reference and Reader Services desk.
When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world, but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family. |
Pinnacle Library Cooperative Online Book ClubOctober 15 – December 10
Need help downloading the book? Visit the Online Book Club Guide for instructions. A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.
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hoopla Book Club HubFall Spotlight!
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg is the Fall Spotlight Selection title. To get more information, visit http://theclub.hoopladigital.com. At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
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