COOK YOUR WAY THROUGH…
Cookbook Discussion Group on Zoom
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FALL 2024 Session:
The Pretty Dish by Jessica Merchant
This discussion takes place virtually on Zoom. Meeting Log-in information will be emailed to registered participants on or before the day of the program and posted to our bookclubs.com page. Free copies of the title available to registered participants starting August 1st (while supplies last) at the information desk!
FULL SCHEDULE (4 PART SERIES):
TUESDAY, OCT 1st 2024 @ 7pm on Zoom– Main Meals for Your Main Self, Eat Dessert First, & Serious Sips
TUESDAY, NOV 5th 2024 @ 7pm on Zoom- Party Time, Let’s Go to the Bar, My Favorite Playlists, Beauty DIYs
TUESDAY, DEC 17th @ 7pm- in-person event @ UMFPL!- DIY Craft Event- Homemade Sugar Lip Scrubs
Join our group on Bookclubs.com to access meeting information, photo albums, discussion boards, polls, and much more! Visit https://bookclubs.com/clubs/5968796/join/ec9466/ to join.
We would love to see pictures of your culinary creations! Email all photos to uppermoreland@mclinc.org prior to each meeting to share your dishes with the group and to add to our group photo album on bookclubs.com!
TRUE CRIME TALES
*** REGISTER HERE***
Tuesday, September 24
@ 7pm on Zoom
If you Tell by Gregg Olsen
A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. – goodreads.com
Tuesday, November 26
@ 7pm on Zoom
The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. – goodreads.com
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ROMANCE BOOK CLUB
Join us in reading the latest and greatest romance fiction titles!
This book club takes place in person at the library.
This event is free & open to all adults.
REGISTER HERE!
Saturday, Oct 5 @ 11am
Gothikana
by Runyx
An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong?
An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death.
An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the university. A part-time professor working on his thesis, Vad has been around long enough to know the dangers the castle possesses. And he knows the moment his path crosses with Corvina, she’s dangerous to everything that he is.
They shouldn’t have caught each other’s eye. They cannot be. But a chill-inducing century-old mystery forces them to collide. People have disappeared every five years over the past century, Corvina is getting clues to unraveling it all, and Vad needs to keep an eye on her.
And so begins a tale of the mysterious, the morbid, the macabre, and a deep love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.
– from goodreads.com
Saturday, Dec 5 @ 11am
Romantic Comedy
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for “The Night Owls,” the late-night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life.
But when Sally’s friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actor who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men at the show—and in society at large—who’ve gotten romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and accomplished women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch called the “Danny Horst Rule,” poking fun at this phenomenon while underscoring how unlikely it is that the reverse would ever happen for a woman.
Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation with a reputation for dating models, who signed on as both host and musical guest for this week’s show. Dazzled by his charms, Sally hits it off with Noah instantly, and as they collaborate on one sketch after another, she begins to wonder whether there might actually be sparks flying. But this isn’t a romantic comedy; it’s real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her…right?
– from goodreads.com
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SILENT BOOK CLUB
2nd Sunday of each month
2-4pm
Join us for dedicated silent reading time in our community room with fellow book lovers! Get book recommendations and bring home some books from our collection!
For more information about Silent Book Club and it’s chapters, visit- https://silentbook.club/
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UMFPL BOOK DISCUSSION
UMFPL’s Book Discussion Group is in person & on Zoom!
Join us however works best for you!
This event is free & open to all adults.
Click below to receive an email with discussion points and Zoom details each month.
Click here to add your email! (No need to sign-up each month, we’ll keep you on our list all year. Register each January to continue to receive Book Discussion information.)
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August 
28, 2024 @ 7pm
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
2022
Two friends — often in love, but never lovers — come together as creative partners in the world of video game design. Success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Spanning 30 years, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel. It examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect — to be loved and to love.
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September 25, 2024 @ 7pm
The Great Mrs. Elias
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
2022
A murder and a case of mistaken identity bring police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, 20-room mansion on Central Park West. That visit sets off an odyssey that moves back and forth in time to reveal the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she amassed and her precipitous fall.
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October 30, 2024 @ 7pm
The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
2021
A small, independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted for a year by the store’s most annoying customer. When Flora dies on All Souls Day, she simply won’t leave the store. Tookie has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention. Now, Tookie must solve the mystery of this haunting while also trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
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November 20, 2024 @ 7pm
No Two Persons
by Erica Bauermeister
2023
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers. Each reader discovers something different that alters their perspective and presents new pathways forward. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways — and how we are more closely connected to one another than we might think.
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December 18, 2024 @ 7pm
When All Is Said
Anne Griffin
2019
“When All Is Said” chronicles the life of Maurice Hannigan from a bar stool in a grand hotel, as the 84-year-old raises a toast to the five most significant people in his life. Even as he is talking to the reader, Hannigan is really addressing his son, Kevin, who is the absent witness of the entire tale.