Book Club (Online)

If you enjoy reading and would like to share your thoughts with others in an online setting, the Pleasanton Library Online Book Club is for you!

Join us for our (virtual) discussion:

Date:    Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm

Book:  "Harry's Trees" by Jon Cohen

Summary:

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragic loss of Oriana’s father. Discovering Harry while roaming the forest, Oriana believes that he holds the key to righting her world.

Harry reluctantly agrees to help Oriana carry out an astonishing scheme inspired by a book given to her by the town librarian, Olive Perkins. Together, Harry and Oriana embark on a golden adventure that will fulfill Oriana’s wild dream—and ultimately open Harry’s heart to new life.

(For readers 18 and up)                                                              

                                              

2022 Book Club Selections

January: "Group" by Christie Tate

February: "Lakewood" by Megan Giddings

March: "Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

April: "Dancing in the Mosque" by Homeira Qaderi

May: "The Widows of Malabar Hill" by Sujata Massey

June: "Harry's Trees" by Jon Cohen

July: "The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn

August: "The Henna Artist" by Alka Joshi

September: "The President and the Frog" by Carolina de Robertis

October: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

November: "The Invisible Life Addie Larue" by V. E. Schwab

2021 Book Club Selections

January:  "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande

February: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

March:  "Educated" by Tara Westover

April: "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk

May: "If I Had Your Face" by Frances Cha

June: "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett

July: "Last Train to London" by Meg Waite Clayton

August: "A Piece of the World" by Christina Baker Kline

September: "Fruit of the Drunken Tree" by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

October: "Love and Ruin" by Paula McLain

November: "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman

December: "Miss Benson's Beetle" by Rachel Joyce

2020 Book Club Selections

April: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson

May: "Lady Clementine" by Marie Benedict

June: "American Fire: Love, Arson and Life in a Vanishing Land" by Monica Hesse

July: "Searching for Sylvie Lee" by Jean Kwok

August: "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" by J. Ryan Stradal

September: "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi

October: "To Keep the Sun Alive" by Rabeah Ghaffari

November:  "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold

December: "Virgil Wander" by Leif Enger