Discover new books & new friends
We'll begin with some conversation starters so you can get to know fellow attendees.
Then our expert staff will guide a lively discussion about carefully selected titles—from classics to new releases. Bring your enthusiasm and love of reading, even if you don't get a chance to finish this month's title.
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Here's what we're reading this month Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the West coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel's dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect.
May The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
June Sparks like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
July The Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
August The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
September Violeta by Isabel Allende
October The Family Way by Christopher DiRaddo
New Appleby Branch opened in Appleview Plaza on October 20, 1983, having served the local neighbourhoods first as Skyway Branch (1965), and New Appleby Branch in Appleby Mall (1972).