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The Last One by Will Dean

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, May 13, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. When she wakes up completely alone on the cruise liner RMS Atlantica, no other pas...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

(Off-Site) A Novel Idea Book Club

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 103 at Plainfield United Methodist Church
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel fro...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield United Methodist Church
Room: Room 103
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Description:

The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, June 10, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. Twenty-two years after her best friend was attacked in the woods, surviving sevent...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyoma

(Off-Site) A Novel Idea Book Club

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 103 at Plainfield United Methodist Church
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just t...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield United Methodist Church
Room: Room 103
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Description:

What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it.

Deliberate Cruelty by Truman Capote

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, July 8, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. This true crime account of the "murder of the century" describes how author Truman...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

(Off-Site) A Novel Idea Book Club

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 103 at Plainfield United Methodist Church
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

Moving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women ...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield United Methodist Church
Room: Room 103
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Description:

Moving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, August 12, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a perfect boyfriend, a...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

The Dish by Andrew Friedman

(Off-Site) A Novel Idea Book Club

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 103 at Plainfield United Methodist Church
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield United Methodist Church
Room: Room 103
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Description:

Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, September 9, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. When her best friend is accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, October 14, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. A real-life "final girl"--the one girls always left standing at the end of a horro...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

Tangled Vines by John Glatt

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, November 11, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction. in 2021, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife and so...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.

(Off-Site) Thrill Seekers Book Club

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Upper Level at Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Program Type:
Book Discussions
Age Group:
Adults
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.  Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers she...

Required
Library Branch: Plainfield Park District Recreation & Administration Center (RAC)
Room: Upper Level
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Description:

New! A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers and adventures--both fiction and nonfiction.