Winter Reading Club: Create New Memories

Create new memories with books! Join the Winter Reading Club to share what you’ve read for a chance to win prizes. We have a Reading Club for every age:

Adults & Teens: Read books and earn raffle tickets for cool prizes. You will also get a raffle ticket just for signing up. Both Clubs run Saturday, December 7-Friday, February 21. Adult program #HPA3359 & Teen program #HPY2157. Click here to sign up for either program.

Children: The first 50 children to sign up will receive a colorful journal to write or draw the memories they create this winter! Record the books you read and each week you can select a prize from our treasure chest. The Reading Club runs through February 21. Join us for an ice cream party on Friday, February 21 at 6:30 p.m. for anyone who participated in the reading club. Program #HPM 3114. Click here to sign up.

Book Discussions

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan C. Bradley, Tuesday, January 7 @ 7:00 p.m. Read this entertaining mystery about eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, who is propelled into a mystery when a man is murdered on the grounds of her family’s decaying English mansion and Flavia’s father becomes the main suspect. Will will lead the discussion. #HPA3361 sign up here.

Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer, Thursday, January 23 @ 7:00 p.m. Enjoy this provocative dual portrait of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, which discusses how their tangled lives were shaped by twentieth-century history and politics, sharing insights into their childhoods, beliefs, and adversarial relationships. The discussion will be lead by Helen. #HPA3362 sign up here.

We Were Strangers Once by Betsy Carter, Thursday, February 6 @ 2:00 p.m. Read this novel about friendship, love and redemption in a circle of immigrants who fled Europe for New York City in the 1930s, then join us for a discussion lead by Helen. #HPA3363 sign up here.

BookBrowse

Not sure what to read next?  Looking for a new mystery author?  Read every James Patterson book and want to read an author similar to him?  Try BookBrowse — which is an online magazine for book lovers – including reviews; previews; “beyond the book” articles; author interviews; extensive resources for book clubs, including reading guides; and much more.

Grab & Go Collection

The Grab & Go Collection is full of bestselling books that can be taken out by anyone for a week.  The books cannot be renewed or put on hold.