12/5/25 and 12/19/25 - Silent Book Club 

Time - 6 pm

Calling all introverts and book lovers that just want uninterrupted quiet time to read. Join myself and others for a quite start to your weekend at our very own Silent Book Club meet. Bring a book or borrow a book, either is fine, then find a place to sit and get comfortable.

The first 15 minutes or so will be to make pleasantries, get settled in and then an hour of pure quite to just read. I hope you can make it. 

1/8/26 - Thursday Night Book Club

Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman & Paul Newell

When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?

12/4/25 - Thursday Night Book Club

Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

12/26/25 - Book Friday

Time - 1pm until close

Need a little time to yourself? Quite is something you didn't get last few days of the holidays? Come and have a cup of tea with me. Relax in the quiet here in the library and recharge your inner battery.