{"id":19,"date":"2015-02-26T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:17:33","slug":"ages-and-pages-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Livermore Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The book club was organized the summer of 2005 and meets every five weeks at 6:00 p.m. at the Library.\u00a0 \u00a0New members are always welcome. If you\u2019re interested in joining the discussions, contact library staff for details of the next meeting at 897-7173 or amanda.lpl.7173@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>next book club<\/strong> meeting is scheduled for <strong>Tuesday,\u00a0 May 26th at 6:00 pm<\/strong>.\u00a0 The book selection is <strong><em>The Wayward Girls <\/em>by Susan Wiggs.<\/strong>\u00a0 <span class=\"Formatted\"><strong>From\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption. Set in the turbulent Vietnam era in the All-American city of Buffalo, New York, six girls are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert;\">Last book club choices:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>127\u00a0 The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali<\/p>\n<p>126.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Bright Lights, Big Christmas\u00a0<\/em>by Mary Kay Andrews<\/p>\n<p>125. Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams<\/p>\n<p>124. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry<\/p>\n<p>123 <em>The Ride of her life<\/em> by Elizabeth Letts<\/p>\n<p>122 <em>Heartwood<\/em> by Amity Gaige<\/p>\n<p>121 <em>Ina Garten memoir:\u00a0 Be ready when the luck happens<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>120.\u00a0 The Cliffs <\/em>by J Courtney Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>119.\u00a0 <em>The Art Thief<\/em> by Michael Finkel<\/p>\n<p>118.\u00a0<em>Skipping Christmas\u00a0<\/em>by John Grisham<\/p>\n<p>117.\u00a0 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>116. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris<\/em><br \/><em>115. Tom Lake by Ann Pachett<\/em><br \/><em>114. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig .\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>113.\u00a0 The Husband&#8217;s Secret by Liane Moriarty<\/em><br \/><em>112.\u00a0 Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood<\/em><br \/><em>111.\u00a0 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein<\/em><br \/><em>110.\u00a0 Lesson in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus<\/em><br \/>109.\u00a0 Chances Are\u00a0by Richard Russo<br \/>108.\u00a0 The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan<br \/>107.\u00a0 The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner<br \/><em>106.\u00a0 The Toll Road North by Peggy DeBlois\u00a0<\/em><br \/>105.\u00a0 Horse by Geraldine Brooks\u00a0<br \/>104.\u00a0\u00a0<em> Carnegie\u2019s Maid<\/em> by Marie Benedict<br \/>103.\u00a0 <em>Finding Freedom, A Cook\u2019s Story Remaking A Life From Scratch<\/em>\u00a0by Erin French<br \/><em>102.\u00a0 The Authenticity Project<\/em> by Clare Pooley<br \/><em>101.\u00a0 Flowers for Algernon<\/em>\u00a0by Daniel Keyes<br \/><em>100.\u00a0 Room<\/em> by Emma Donoghue<br \/><em>99.\u00a0 Golden Girl<\/em> by Elin Hilderbrand\u00a0<br \/>98.\u00a0 \u00a0Mill Town:\u00a0 Reckoning With What Remains by Kerri Arsenault<br \/><em>97.\u00a0 The Lions of Fifth Avenue<\/em> by Fiona Davis<br \/><em>96.\u00a0 The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em><br \/>95.\u00a0 <em>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/em> by Amor Towles<br \/>94.\u00a0 <em>Seed of Sarah:\u00a0 Memoirs of a survivor<\/em> by Judith Magyar Isaacson.<br \/>93.\u00a0 <em>Summer of \u201969<\/em> by Elin Hilderbrand<br \/>92.\u00a0\u00a0<em> The Girls in the Picture<\/em>\u00a0by Melanie Benjamin<br \/>91.\u00a0 <em>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek<\/em> by Kim Michele Richardson<br \/>90.\u00a0 <em>Fever<\/em>\u00a0 by Mary Beth Keene<br \/>89.\u00a0\u00a0<em> I Will Always Write Back<\/em> by Martin Ganda &amp;amp; Caitlin Alifirenka<br \/>88.\u00a0 <em>Chronicles of a Radical Hag<\/em> by Lorna Landvik<br \/>87.\u00a0 <em>The Forgotten Road<\/em> by Richard Paul Evans<br \/>86<em>.\u00a0 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins<\/em><br \/><em>85.\u00a0 Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks<\/em><br \/><em>84.\u00a0 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover<\/em><br \/>83.\u00a0 The Paris Wife by Paula McLaine<br \/>82.\u00a0 You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott<br \/>81.\u00a0 Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford<br \/>80.\u00a0\u00a0 Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple<br \/>79.\u00a0 The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman<br \/>78.\u00a0 <em>The Muse<\/em> by Jessie Burton<br \/>77.\u00a0 <em>The Orphan Mothe<\/em>r by Robert Hicks<br \/>76.\u00a0 <em>A Man called Ove<\/em> by Fredrik Backman<br \/>75.\u00a0 <em>At the Edge of the Orchard<\/em> by Tracey Chevelier<br \/>74.\u00a0 <em>Before We Were Yours<\/em> by Lisa Wingate<br \/>73.\u00a0 <em>A One in a Million Boy<\/em> by Monica Woods<br \/>72.\u00a0 C<em>ircling the Sun<\/em> by Paula McLain<br \/>71.\u00a0 \u00a0A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhns<br \/>70.\u00a0 The Stranger in the Woods by Michael l Finkel<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Northern Borders<\/em> by Howard Frank Mosher<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Nest<\/em> by Cynthia d April Sweeney<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Madam President<\/em> by Nicolle Wallace<br \/>\u00b7 <em>In the Unlikely Event<\/em> by Judy Blume<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Three Weeks in December<\/em> by Audrey Schulman<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Storied Life of A J Fikry<\/em> by Gabrielle Zevin<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Handle with Care<\/em> by Jodi Picoult<br \/>\u00b7<em> The Nightingale<\/em> by Kristin Hannah<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Here if You Need Me<\/em> by Kate Braestrup<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Invention of Wings<\/em> by Sue Monk Kidd<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Red Tent<\/em> by Anita Diamont<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Secret Lives of Bees<\/em> by Sue Monk Kidd<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Angela\u2019s Ashes<\/em> by Frank McCourt<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir<\/em> by Bill Bryson<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Three Cups of Tea<\/em> by Greg Mortenson<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Trespasser<\/em> by Paul Doioron<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Big Girl Panties<\/em> by Stephanie Evanovich<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Still Alice<\/em> by Lisa Genova (2014)<br \/>\u00b7<em> A Star for Mrs. Blake<\/em> by April Smith (2014)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Emmeline<\/em> by Judith Rossner (2014)<br \/>\u00b7<em> Orphan Train<\/em> by Christina Baker (2013)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Once Upon a Town<\/em> by Bob Greene (2013)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> by Rebecca Skloot. (2013)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>A Walk in the Woods<\/em> by Bill Bryson (June 2013)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Home Front<\/em> by Kristin Hannah (April 2013)<br \/>\u00b7 <em>When we were the Kennedy\u2019s<\/em> by Monica Wood<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Secret Ingredient<\/em> by Susan Bishop Crispell<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Sarah\u2019s Key<\/em> by Tatiana de Rosnay<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Sarah\u2019s Quilt<\/em> by Nancy Turner<br \/>\u00b7<em> These is My Words<\/em> by Nancy Turner<br \/>\u00b7<em> Eternal on the Water<\/em> by Joseph Monninger<br \/>\u00b7 <em>A Soldiers Son<\/em> by Jack Estes<br \/>\u00b7 <em>11\/22\/63<\/em> by Stephen King<br \/><em>\u00b7 Mrs. Kennedy and Me<\/em> by Clint Hill<br \/>\u00b7 <em>1984<\/em> by George Orwell<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Fair Clear and Terrible<\/em> by Shirley Nelson<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Priestess and the Pope<\/em> by Paul Dionne<br \/>\u00b7 <em>An Ex to Grind<\/em> by Jane Heller<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Help<\/em> by Kathryn Stockett<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family<\/em> by Kerck Kelsey<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Abide with Me<\/em> by Elizabeth Strout<br \/>\u00b7<em> Icebound<\/em> by Jerri Nielson<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Love, Eat, Pray<\/em> by Elizabeth Strout<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Water for Elephants<\/em> by Sara Gruen<br \/><em>The Shack<\/em> by William P Young<br \/>\u00b7<em> A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl\u2019s Journal, 1830-1832<\/em> by Jean W. Blos<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Memory Keepers Daughter<\/em> by Kim Edwards<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Animal Vegetable Miracle<\/em> by Barbara Kingsolver<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Corpsman Legacy<\/em> by Stephanie Caisse<br \/>\u00b7 <em>I Feel Bad About My Neck<\/em> by Nora Ephron<br \/>\u00b7 <em>My Sisters Keeper<\/em> by Jodi Picoult<br \/>\u00b7 <em>A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies<\/em> by Ellen Cooney<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons<\/em> by Lorna Landrick<br \/>\u00b7 <em>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/em>\u00a0by Mary Ann Shaffer &amp;amp; Annie<br \/>Barrows<br \/>\u00b7<em> Without a Farmhouse Near<\/em> by Deborah Rawson<br \/>\u00b7 H<em>appy Times in Mill City<\/em> by Ann Sullivan<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Amoskaeg: Life and Work In a New England Factory City by Tamara Hareven<\/em><br \/><em>\u00b7 A New England Girlhood<\/em> by Lucy Larcom<br \/>\u00b7<em> A New England Town: The First Hundred Years<\/em> by Kenneth Lockridge<br \/>\u00b7 <em>Blackberry Winter<\/em> by Margaret Mead<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book club was organized the summer of 2005 and meets every five weeks at 6:00 p.m. at the Library.\u00a0 \u00a0New members are always welcome. If you\u2019re interested in joining the discussions, contact library staff for details of the next meeting at 897-7173 or amanda.lpl.7173@gmail.com Our next book club meeting is scheduled for Tuesday,\u00a0 May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/?page_id=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Livermore Book Club<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":128,"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livermore.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}