FEBRUARY SELECTIONS
 
Enjoy our monthly selection of books and join the discussion!
 
Get together once a month virtually with other readers and discuss what they're currently reading, share thoughts on books just read, or find out the next read.
 
 

What If A Fish
by Anika Fajardo

Eleven-year-old Eddie Aguado is convinced that winning the 14th Annual Arne Hopkins Dock Fishing Tournament (once he actually learns how to fish) will bring him closer to his dad, who died when Eddie was only five.
 
Monday, February 27th at 3pm
RSVP via email:
genevieve.egana@kernlibrary.org

The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath

Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
 
Also available in eBook on Libby
Also available in eBook on Hoopla
 
Wednesdays, February 22nd at 4pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 865 6905 1943
Passcode: 370190 
 
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
 
Also available in eBook & Audiobook on Libby
 
Friday, February 10th at 5pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 873 2788 9287
Passcode: 778373 
 
Clementine
by Tillie Walden

Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival...might be each other.
 
Also available in eBook on Hoopla
 
Monday, February 27th at 5pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 896 5818 3654
Passcode: 524557

The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker

In love with her evil brother-in-law, Julia provides her blood in exchange for the promise of ultimate sensual pleasure, in a horror novel that captures the consequences of one man's experimentation with the occult and that inspired the cult film Hellraiser. 
 
Also available in eBook on Hoopla
 
Thursday, Februrary 23rd at 5pm
 
Zoom Meeting ID: 853 6279 0630
Passcode: 585030 
 
The Daughter of Auschwitz
by Tova Friedman

One of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, 83-year-old Tova Friedman chronicles the atrocities she witnessed, the impossible choices Jews were forced to make to survive and, ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds. 
 
Also available in eBook on Libby
Also available in Audiobook on Hoopla
Also available in eBook on CloudLibrary
 
 Monday, February 13th at 5pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 853 6991 3893
Passcode: 356772
 
Pawn of Prophecy
by David Eddings

The farm boy, Garion, begins a dangerous quest to recover the magic Orb and prevent the evil Torak from seizing power over the world.
 
Also available in Audiobook on Hoopla
 
Friday, February 17th at 5pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 871 0389 6038
Passcode: 034080 
 
These Violent Delights
by Chloe Gong

Set in 1920s Shanghai, a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet follows the star-crossed romance of a flapper-turned-gang leader who must set aside her prejudices to work beside a rival to protect their city from territorial gangsters. 
 
Also available in eBook on Libby
Also available in Audiobook on Hoopla
 
Tuesday, February 7th at 5pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 895 4528 0350
Passcode: 981993 
 
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