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Book Discussions
All are welcome to join our lively, informal book discussions held on the second Monday of each month at 7 pm. Fiction and non-fiction titles are chosen based on professional reviews, awards lists, and recommendations from the group members. No registration needed, just drop in.
We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
When Elizabeth Balsam is asked to deliver a box of old photos to a relative she didn't know she had, she begins a journey of discovery about her family, including two remarkable women who embodied courage and love in the face of war, racism, and persecution. FICTION
Libby: eBook
hoopla: eBook & Audiobook
cloudLibrary: eBook
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Meeting ID: 867 3108 4472
Passcode: 231486
Monday, January 11 at 7 pmThis Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
In the summer of 1932, four children flee from the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where Native American children who've been forcibly separated from their parents are sent to be educated, and travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey. FICTION
Libby: eBook & Audiobook
hoopla: Audiobook
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Meeting ID: 867 3108 4472
Passcode: 231486
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Monday, February 8 at 7 pm
This legendary African American civil rights attorney recounts her trailblazing life in this inspiring, beautifully told story that shows how one remarkable woman changed history, and how urgent it is to continue her work today.
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Meeting ID: 867 3108 4472
Passcode: 231486
For those 21+. This is not your parents’ book club. Kick back, relax and chat about books while enjoying your favorite beverage. (BYOB…buy your own beverage)! We meet every other month at The Wagon Wheel on Main Street.
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Tuesday, December 1 at 7 pm
A moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities. FICTION
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Meeting ID: 850 2705 3748
Passcode: 419238
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Tuesday, February 2 at 7 pm
The unforgettable story of a young family from Cameroon making a new life in New York during the 2008 financial crisis and the ramifications of the economy on both them and the patriarch’s employer. FICTION
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Meeting ID: 850 2705 3748
Passcode: 419238
2020 COMMUNITY READS
The Neighborhood Library Association (NLA) is a group of seven area libraries in a collaborative partnership. Our goal is to bring members of our communities together to read and discuss the same book in an annual Community Reads. These seven libraries also encourage community members to come together for events and programs related to that year’s book. The seven libraries composing the NLA are: Commerce Township Community Library, Lyon Township Public Library, Northville District Library, Novi Public Library, Salem-South Lyon District Library, Walled Lake City Library, and Wixom Public Library.
Visit the Neighborhood Library Association’s Community Reads website for more information.
Between the Lines Virtual Book Discussion
November 9, 2020Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
This is a graphic novel presentation of the shocking event from 50 years ago, when the National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War. Non-Fiction
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Meeting ID: 841 4219 4162
Passcode: 216280
Previous Between the Lines Titles
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Warmth of other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- Southernmost by Silas House
- The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
- Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Community Reads)
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Community Read: Beautiful Music by Michael Zadoorian
- Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder
- Strings Attached by Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Community Read: The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
- Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
- The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer who
Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
- Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Aviators Wife by Melanie Benjamin
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City by Matthew Desmond
- Community Reads – Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
- Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit by Tom Stanton
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a world that cant’ stop talking by Susan Cain
- Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
- Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
- Community Reads: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
- Free Days with George by Colin Campbell
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
- Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
- Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar
- Lisette’s List – Community Read by Susan Vreeland
- Social Animal by David Brooks
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
- Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
- Requiem by Frances Itani
- Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link
- The Age of Miracles: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker
- The Smartest Kids in the World: and How They Got that Way by Amanda Ripley
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matters by William Deresiewicz
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Detroit City is the Place to Be: the Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
- Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy
- The Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Winter’s Bone by Daneil Woodrell
- Stuff by Randy O. Frost
- Fathermucker by Greg Olear
- The Other by Wes Moore
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Moneyball by Michael M. Lewis
- This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
- Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
- Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
- Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home by Matthew Pinsker
- Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
- The Good Old Days – They Were Terrible! by Bettmann, Otto
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives by Emily Yellin
- Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Still Alice: A Novel by Lisa Genova
- Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
- The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O’Brien
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
- The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue by Lauren Weber
Previous Books & Brews Titles
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- There There by Tommy Orange
- All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woo by Junot Diaz
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas
- The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng