Third Sundays | JAN, MAR, MAY, JUL, *SEP, NOV | 1:30-3:30 PM | Auditorium We look at a different mystery subgenre at each meeting. Reserve your spot at the discussion (limited number available) and choose a book from our list of recommended titles. We’ll put the book on hold for you. Pick up the…
Lit Lounge Book Club
7pm, Fourth Thursday every month at Decade Coffee! If you like to get lit—erary, join this new book club for adults that takes place at Decade Coffee & Bar (920 Delaware Street in East Lawrence). You can raise a pint and your bookish IQ at the same time! We will chat monthly about what we…
Third Thursday Book Club
Third Thursdays of the month | 7 PM | Lawrence Beer Co. (826 Pennsylvania St.) Read and discuss a new title each month. Please contact Polli to reserve a book and get details: pkenn@lplks.org 2024 Reading List July 18: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley August 15: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon September 19…
Last Wednesday Book Club
Once a month on the last Wednesday | 6:30 PM | Meeting Room A Join the Last Wednesday Book Club, the library's longest running adult book club! Selections range from beloved classics to modern favorites. Anyone who's read the book for the current month is invited to participate. Contact Leah for more info: lnewton@lplks.org 2023 book…
Nature Book Club
2nd Tuesdays, before the change of season | 6:30-8pm | Meeting Room A Contact Shirley for more info, sbraunlich@lplks.org Join us to talk about books connected to the natural world (fiction and nonfiction). Share your recent reads and hear recommendations from book club members as well as co-leaders Jake Vail (co-author of A Kansas Bestiary and Information Services Assistant…
Social Justice Book Club
Second Sunday each month | 4 PM | Meeting Room A This book club gets us thinking and talking about inequality and injustice in the U.S. Nonfiction, novels, memoirs, and more–we seek multiple perspectives, with multiple points of entry, and we work to center the voices of marginalized communities and people through our exploration…
Speculative Fiction Book Club
Second Tuesday each month | 7 PM | Meeting Room B
Like world-building fantasy? Eerie dystopias? Far-out sci fi? This club is for you! Have no idea what we’re t
Fantastic Beasts @ LPL
Just in case you haven’t been on the internet, seen a magazine/newspaper, or watched television in the last year, I’m here to inform you that there is in fact a new Harry Potter movie coming out. The screenplay is written by J.K. Rowling herself (unlike a certain play that must not be named), and it’s set…
Newbery Hopefuls
Last week I attended Kansas City Public Library’s Mock Newbery awards which basically looks like this: a bunch of librarians nerd out about a selection of books, then we vote on which one we believe is worthy of top honors. The criteria for the Newbery Award are just vague enough that a lot is left open…
Rompy Reads
Spring has sprung, and when I get joyously happy about the weather, I generally want to grab a fun read that’s perfect for sun-lounging. Here are three books – in three different genres – that are ideal for a sunlit afternoon filled with rompy adventure and funtimes. Now when I describe these books as rompy…
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