book club

Library Hours
Monday - Thursday:
10 am - 7:30 pm
Friday: 10 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday:10am-2:30 pm

Readers enjoy lively discussions and great desserts at the library.

Book Club – Reader’s Group

The Book Club is a reader's discussion group that meets once a month from
September through May. The meetings are organized and led by volunteers.
Discussions are held on the second Thursday of the month, 7:00 p.m. at the library.

One book per month is selected. Readers become acquainted with a variety of books
and authors. The book club gathers to discuss the story, other books written by the featured author and to learn more about the author.

The Book Club is for adults who love to read! This is an informal and fun gathering.
New members are welcome. If you are interested in joining, contact the library for more information, 785-364-3532 or holtoncitylib@gmail.com.

Book Ends

Same Kind of Different Than Me is the story of a dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana; an East Texas honky-tonk; and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda..an upscale New York Gallery..a downtown dumpster..a Texas ranch. Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, it also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.

The Devil in the White City – Their fates were linked by the magical Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, nicknamed the “White City” for its majestic beauty. Architect Daniel Burnham built it; serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes used it to lure victims to his World’s Fair Hotel, designed for murder. Both men left behind them a powerful legacy, one of brilliance and energy, the other of sorrow and darkness. Here, then, is your ticket to the greatest fair in history – a place where incredible dreams came to life alongside darkest nightmares.

In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, beautiful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet snubs the prideful aristocrat Mr. Darcy – until he helps her family avoid a potentially devastating scandal. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular and well-known romance novel, demonstrating her masterful use of ironic plot twists and flawless prose set against the strict social environment of Regency England.

Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother - a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

The Reader is the story of 15 year old Michael Berg, who has an affair with Hanna, a woman more than twice his age. One day she disappears, and he expects to never see her again. Years later, he runs into her at a trial where she is accused of a Nazi crime. Michael must then wrestle with the implications of their relationship and whether he owns her anything.

At 27, Molly is the youngest of three siblings, Feisty but hard-working, she has always been overshadowed by her older sister, Robin, an marathoner who is favored to shine at the upcoming Olympic trials. When Robin suffers a heart attack during a training run and fails to regain consciousness, her family is devastated. While My Sister Sleeps is more than a coming-of-age story. Taking place over six days, this novel explores a family in crisis, peeling away layers of relationships to expose one truth after another. Mother to daughter, sister to sister – it is a story of rising to a challenge, making hard decisions, then loving enough to let go.

Queen of the Road is a memoir of a couple striving to choose the unconventional road with all the ruts and wrong turns along the way. It’s a tale about not settling: in life, at work, or in relationships.

The Help – Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women – mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends – view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Celebrating literature, love and the power of the human spirit, this book is the story of an English author living in the shadow of WW II and embarking on a writing project that will dramatically change her life. Unfolding in a series of letters, this enchanting novel introduces readers to the indomitable Juliet Ashton. Through Juliet’s correspondence with her publisher, best friend, and an absorbing cast of characters, readers discover that despite the personal losses she suffered in the Blitz, and author tours sometimes marked by mishaps, nothing can quell her enthusiasm for the written word.