Join One of Our Monthly Book Clubs!

Did you know that the Franklin Township Public Library hosts two monthly book clubs, one held in-person and the other online? Our Virtual Book Club for September meets this Saturday, 9/30 at 11am. If you are unable to make it, or if you won’t finish the book in time, we have two clubs scheduled for October 2023:

Virtual Book Club: A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey – Saturday, 10/14 at 11am via Zoom.

Both the eBook and audiobook are available to check out on Hoopla Digital. Please click here to register.

Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn’t spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family’s historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings to inherit is for all three adult children to come back and claim it—together.

Natalie drives cross-country to Santa Cruz with her willful cat in tow expecting to sign some papers, see siblings Lynn and Jake briefly, and get back to sorting out her life in Boston. But Jake, now an award-winning ornithologist, is missing. And Lynn, working as an undertaker in New York City, shows up with a teenage son. While Natalie and her nephew look for Jake—meeting a very handsome marine biologist who immediately captures her heart—she unpacks the guilt she has held onto for so many years, wondering how (or if) she can salvage a relationship with her siblings after all this time.

Second Saturday Book Club: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister – Saturday, 10/21 at 11am. DeMott Lane Branch.

No registration required!

A psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. A woman waits up for her teenage son and witnesses him kill a stranger on the street outside of their house. That night she falls asleep in despair; her son in custody and his future shattered. Then she wakes up … and every morning it is a day earlier, the day before the murder. With another chance to discover the trigger for this crime and stop it before it happens, she has no choice but to try.

For questions about our book clubs or any other events, please leave a comment below or call the reference desk at 732-873-8700 opt. 3.

Thanks for reading,
George, FTPL