Morning Book Club September 20, 2022 Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club meets to discuss Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 9:00 am. Attend in person at the library, 258 Main Street in Norway, ME, or online using Zoom. Here is the link to join: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/88442863825 This book discussion is open to the public. There is no need […]

Morning Book Club: “The Pale Blue Eye” by Louis Bayard

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Join us for Morning Book Club on October 18, 2022 at 9:00 am at the Norway Memorial Library! October's selection is "The Pale Blue Eye" by Louis Bayard. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. Augustus […]

Morning Book Club: “Bewilderment” by Richard Powers

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Join us for Morning Book Club at 9:00 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at the Norway Memorial Library! November's selection is "Bewilderment" by Richard Powers. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne, searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy […]

Morning Book Club

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club January 17, 2023 at 9:00 am: True Biz by Sara Nović The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into […]

Morning Book Club

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard […]

Morning Book Club

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific […]

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Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex […]

Morning Book Club – “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club Less by Andrew Sean Greer "Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning (2018) comic novel about a middle-aged gay man on a round-the-world trip is light in tone but never slight in impact," says our own Glen Weldon. "The narrator observes the absent-minded Arthur Less' sexual and logistical perambulations with an artisanal blend of exasperation […]

Morning Book Club – “I Still Dream About You” by Fannie Flagg

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg “The beloved Fannie Flagg is at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. To others, Maggie Fortenberry’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful […]

Morning Book Club – “The Swimmers” by Julie Otsuka

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving […]

Morning Book Club – “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound […]

Morning Book Club – “The Authenticity Project” by Claire Pooley

Norway Memorial Library 258 Main Street, Norway, ME, United States

Morning Book Club The Authenticity Project by Claire Pooley Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes--in a plain, green journal--the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by […]