13 Oct, 2024

Plano Reads: Join Second Tuesday Book Club on January 9 for ‘Verity’ as we begin our new reading year

From exceptionally popular writer Colleen Hoover comes Verity, a riveting psychological and romantic thriller about a young woman whose life becomes dangerously linked to the unraveling marriage of her employers. We will meet in person from 7 to 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9, in the program room at Schimelpfenig Library, for our first meeting […]

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Plano Reads: Writers on Writing

In recognition of November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), we offer these books on writing and the writing process. “National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the […]

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Plano Reads: Join Second Tuesday Book Club for Jodi Picoult’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ on November 14 – Our Last 2023 Meeting

Jodi Picoult’s novel, Wish You Were Here, is the story of Diana O’Toole, a young woman whose vacation to the Galapagos Islands, and well-planned life, is derailed by the Covid pandemic in March 2020, forcing her to re-assess everything she has considered essential. What will happen to her, and those closest to her, in the […]

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Plano Reads: Horrifying Halloween!

Scary October has arrived! Thrills and chills await adult readers who try one of these titles, suited to this spooky season of the year… Phantoms in Fiction Bird Box by Josh Malerman – Something is out there… something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows […]

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Plano Reads: ‘Zorrie’ is Second Tuesday Book Club’s October 10 Book Choice

Please join Second Tuesday Book Club on October 10 to discuss Zorrie by Laird Hunt. This historical novel spans the twentieth century, and reveals with sympathy and understanding the life of Zorrie Underwood and the people of small-town Indiana with whom she shares it. We will meet in person from 7 to 8:15 p.m. on […]

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