Join us at the Alachua Branch for a fun monthly book discussion. Each month we will select one Adult Fiction or Nonfiction title to read and discuss it as a group. Meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. Copies of the current book will be available upon request at the Circulation Desk. To confirm availability, please call 386-462-2592 or email lcowart@aclib.us.
Currently Reading:
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
Tuesday, January, 21 p.m., Alachua Branch Meeting Room
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant
Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film “Tender Madness”—will spend their days taking photos, and their evenings drinking chilled gin and tonics back at camp, as the local Tanzanian guides warm water for their baths. The wealthy Americans expect civilized adventure: Fresh ice from the kerosene-powered ice maker, dinners of cooked gazelle meat, and plenty of stories to tell over lunch back on Rodeo Drive.
What Katie and her glittering entourage do not expect is this: A kidnapping gone wrong, their guides bleeding out in the dirt, and a team of Russian mercenaries herding them into Land Rovers, guns to their heads. As the powerful sun gives way to night, the gunmen shove them into abandoned huts and Katie Barstow, Hollywood royalty, prays for a simple thing: To see the sun rise one more time. A blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change, The Safari is a vibrant masterpiece from one of our finest storytellers. (Goodreads)
Upcoming Meetings:
February 18 - Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
March 18 - The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
April 15 - TBD
Previously Read:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
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