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PML Book Group
Every month the library hosts a book discussion where readers gather to talk about what they liked and disliked about our monthly read. The group meets on the first Thursday of every month at 11:00 AM.
JANUARY
GLORIOUS EXPLOITS
Thursday, January 8 at 11:00 am
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. Told in a contemporary Irish voice and as riotously funny as it is deeply moving, Glorious Exploits is an unforgettable ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages.
FEBRUARY
ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD
Thursday, February 5 at 11:00 am
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.
A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London)
MARCH
DEACON KING KONG
Thursday, March 5 at 11:00 am
Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize, One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year", Oprah's Book Club pick, NY Times Readers Pick 100 Best Books of the the 21st century and a Washington Post Notable Novel.
APRIL
NIGHT WATCH
Thursday, April 2 at 11:00 am
12-year-old ConaLee and her traumatized, mute mother, Eliza, as they seek refuge in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in post-Civil War West Virginia, exploring themes of identity, trauma, family, and resilience amidst the lingering chaos of war. The story weaves together intimate family drama with the broader societal impacts of the war, using real asylum records and photographs to create a poignant narrative of survival and healing.
2024 Pulitzer Prize winner
MAY
TRUE BIZ
Thursday, May 7 at 11:00 am
Sara Nović’s second novel is a vibrant celebration of Deaf culture and Deaf communities. Set at the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf in the struggling industrial town of Colson, Ohio, True Biz follows the interconnected lives of several students and teachers over the course of one tumultuous year. It’s a remarkable book that is many things at once: a primer on Deaf history, a love story, a coming-of-age tale, a riotous political awakening, a family saga and a richly layered character study.
JUNE
THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING
Thursday, June 4 at 11:00 am
While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Tova Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a flowerpot alongside her bed. She enters the rhythm of life of this mysterious creature, and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, she shares the inspiring and intimate story of her connection with Neohelix albolabris – a common woodland snail.
JULY
THERE WAS NIGHT AND THERE WAS MORNING
Thursday, July 2 at 11:00 am
A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author’s father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets.
AUGUST
THIS ORDINARY STARDUST
Thursday, August 6 at 11:00 am
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of scientific wonder, as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend’s wife and daughter.
At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, This Ordinary Stardust offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.
SEPTEMBER
HOUSE GONE QUIET
Thursday, September 3 at 11:00 am
A group of women contemplate violence after they’re sent into foreign territory to make husbands of the enemy. A support network of traumatized joggers meets to discuss the bodies they’ve found on their runs. And a town replaces its Confederate monument with a rotating cast of local residents. Slippery but muscular, sly but electric, this stunning debut collection moves from horror to magical realism to satire with total authority. In these stories, characters build and remake their sense of home, be it with one another or within themselves.
