1/9/26 & 1/23/26 - 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. 

2/5/26 - Thursday Night Book Club

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

Based on a true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II. 

Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal.

Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings, and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them.

“A love letter to Paris, the power of books, and the beauty of intergenerational friendship” (Booklist), The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest places.

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?

1/21/26 (10:30 - 11:30) and 1/22/26 (6:00 - 7:00) - 10 Signs of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships (The same presentation is being given twice)

This workshop is presented by The Center for Safer Communities (formerly Turning Points Network).

Learn signs and skills that can help us in all our relationships: with partners, family, friends, co-workers, neighbors. Learn what makes relationships strong and what can harm relationships. Short video and discussion. Come learn how to talk with youth and others in your life about relationship health and leave with tips and resources.

For more info call Mary at OGP Library (603) 863-6921 or Kerry at The Center for Safer Communities at 605-543-0155.