Tuesday, June 27: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben. Home from the war and suffering from PTSD, Army pilot Maya Stern is with her husband, Joe, when he is brutally murdered by a robber in Central Park. Watching her daughter through a nanny cam two weeks later, she sees her playing with Joe. What can she believe? Award Winner Book Discussions meet from 2-3 pm on selected Saturdays at Bertram Woods Branch and are led by Branch Manager Lynne Miller. Books may be picked up at the Woods Branch Reference desk one month before the discussion. Saturday, April 22: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. In her 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Nonfiction, the author writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence. Saturday, May 20: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Navigating between their Indian traditions and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri’s touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. The book won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Saturday, June 17: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is the story of Alex Dumas, father of the renowned author, Alexandre. Born to a black slave mother and a fugitive white French nobleman in what is now Haiti, Dumas made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a member of the French aristocracy. 30 SHAKERONLINE.COM | SPRING 2017 Right-On Roofing, Inc 39 Years of doing the job right! 440.585.1960 Since 1978 After his service as Napoleon’s cavalry commander, Dumas was captured and cast into a dungeon, beginning a harrowing ordeal, which was the inspiration for one of the world’s classic works of fiction. PubReads meets from 7-8:30 pm the second Monday evening of each month at The Academy Tavern, 12800 Larchmere Boulevard, and are led by Rachel Wilyhote. Books can be picked up at the Reference Desk at Main Library one month before the discussion. If it’s a beer and a book that you’re after, then PubReads is right up your alley. Monday, April 10: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. This mystery thriller is told through the eyes of an alcoholic divorcée who becomes involved in a missing persons’ investigation. Monday, May 8: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy @ Shaker Library
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