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Hit the Book(s) Club : This semester's book choices

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Roll 1, book 1

Science Fiction:

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...

Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family. (from Storygraph)

Reading Schedule & Metting times 

Discussing chapters 1-10

  • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
  • Monday, January the 22nd from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday January 23rd from 4-5pm

Discussing chapters 11-19

  • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
  • Monday, February 5th from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday February 6th from 4-5pm

Discussing chapters 20-end 

  • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
  • Friday, February 16th from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday February 20th from 4-5pm

Roll 2, Book 2

Romance

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

 

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.

As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for.... (from Storygraph) 

 

Reading Schedule & Metting times 

  • Discussing chapters 1-10

    • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
    • Monday, March 25th from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday March 26th from 4-5pm
  • Discussing chapters 11-19

    • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
    • Monday, April 8th from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday April 9th from 4-5pm
  • Discussing chapters 20-end 

    • Meeting in the Library's Team Room 2 (Room 132), 1st floor, straight back along the back wall. 
    • Monday, April 22nd from 1:15-2:20 pm OR Tuesday April 23rd from 4-5pm

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Reviews of book 2

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