Livermore Public Library Book Clubs
 
February/March 2025
 
 
We're Talkin' Books! Club
Meets the first Thursday of every month.
Hybrid meetings.
In-person meeting: Civic Center Library, Board Room,
1188 S. Livermore Ave.
Zoom access: http://tinyurl.com/wtbclpl
 
Date: Thursday, February 6, 7:00 p.m.

The devil's highway : a true story
by Luis Alberto Urrea

Describes the harrowing May 2001 attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region know as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds on a trek that cost fourteen lives. 
Date: Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.

Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver

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. 
 
History Book Club
Meets the third Tuesday of every month.
Hybrid meetings.
In-person meeting: Civic Center Library, Board Room,
1188 S. Livermore Ave.
Zoom access: https://bit.ly/hcebc
 
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 7:00 p.m.

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by Shomari Wills

Relates the stories of the first black millionaires in the United States, former slaves who became self-made entrepreneurs in the years between 1830 and 1927, discussing their achievements and the difficult challenges they endured.
 
Good Reads Book Club
Meets the fourth Thursday of the month.
In-person meetings.
Civic Center Library, Storytime Room, 1188 S. Livermore Ave.
 
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
 
The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents an unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. 
Livermore Public Library
1188 S. Livermore Ave.
Livermore, California 94550
(925) 373-5500
library.livermoreca.gov