Park Ridge Public Library
Book Club Newsletter
May 2025
 
New Book Discussion Sets
I Hope This Finds You Well
by Natalie Sue

Trapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets and forbidden feelings to save her job, risking exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart. *Coming Soon* 
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NEW Science Fiction & Fantasy 
Read Starter Villain by John Scalzi
 
In person book discussion on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm
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Starter Villain
by John Scalzi

Charlie is a divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell. All he wants is to open a pub, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies, leaving his supervillain business to Charlie. But Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital. It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good. In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.
Read The Most by Jessica Anthony
 
Virtual book discussion on Tuesday, June 10 at 7pm
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In person book discussion on Thursday, June 26 at 10am
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The Most
by Jessica Anthony

It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won’t come out. 
Read I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
 
In person book discussion Wednesday, June 18 at 7 pm
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I Hope This Finds You Well
by Natalie Sue

Trapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets and forbidden feelings to save her job, risking exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart. *Coming Soon* 
 
 Nonfiction
 
Read McMillion$ by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
 
In person book discussion Friday, June 13 at 10 am
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McMillion$
by James Lee Hernandez

Expanding on the HBO docuseries with major new interviews, this book recounts the shocking McDonalds conspiracy, one that ran deep into their most beloved promotions: the Monopoly game, which was a cover for a brilliantly crafted, near-infallible nationwide scheme for fraud, in this story of what happens when the American dream goes very wrong. 
 
Books in Bloom
 
Absolution
by Alice McDermott

Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour. 

 
Good Company
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

In this bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us, Flora Mancini finds everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend upended when she makes a startling discovery. 
The Measure
by Nikki Erlick

A spirit-lifting, high-concept blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live.
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by Marianne Cronin

Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived. 

 
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett

Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

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