The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. We will meet from noon to 1 pm in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . . Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk.

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. We will meet from noon to 1 pm in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . . Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk.

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. This meeting is a week earlier than normal due to the Indiana Library Association conference meeting at our normal time. We will meet at our regularly scheduled time of noon in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk, or read that copy leftover from high school that is still on your home bookshelf!

Attention: the Book Club @ The Bookmark has cancelled its meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 17. Transfers of books through the Indiana Evergreen Consortium have slowed deliveries, meaning the requested copies of Stiff have not yet arrived in Shelbyville.

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet at its next regularly scheduled time on Nov. 7 at noon in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

#FYP #oopsmoment #library #bookclubs #nobooksnolife #needmorebooksnow

The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe at 9 Public Square to discuss “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

Boulley's debut novel is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. It has been selected as a Shelby County Reads book. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother.

When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she is thrust into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe on the Public Square to discuss “Calling Me Home” by Julie Kibler. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

Kibler weaves a story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.

Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe on the Public Square to discuss “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, “The Art of Racing in the Rain” is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life … as only a dog could tell it.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

Join the Book Group @ The Bookmark at noon as they discuss “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, international best-selling novelist of “How To Stop TIme.”

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In “The Midnight Library,” Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Pick up a copy of “The Midnight Library” at the circulation desk in Adult Services of the library. There is no cost and no membership required to join the book club.

Gather at The Bookmark to discuss “The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit” by Michael Finkel.

Many people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it—but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight did just that when he left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another person for the next twenty-seven years.

Drawing on extensive interviews with Knight himself, journalist Michael Finkel shows how Knight accomplished this — and the unique challenges he faced returning to the world. This thought-provoking books makes us challenge our own assumptions on what is a good life?

Drop by the library to pick up a copy of the book on the Book Club shelves by the circulation desk.

Join us at The Bookmark for lunch or a snack as we discuss “The Magnolia Place” by Fiona Davis. Davis returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions that spans five decades.

Join the Book Group @ The Bookmark for “The Hunting Party” by Lucy Foley at noon for lunch and a rousing discussion of a perfect holiday mystery.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.