Marathon City Book Club: "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune Mon. 8/10. 5:45 p.m. Mild-mannered caseworker Linus Baker is tasked with managing magical child orphanages, including the Marsyas Island Orphanage where six dangerous children reside. It’s Baker’s job to assess the children for apocalyptic tendencies, but complications abound in this case. 715-443-2775. [MCPL Marathon City]
Edgar Book Club: "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder Tues. 8/11. 12:00 p.m. This month’s nonfiction pick explores one doctor’s amazing quest to cure the world through medicine and prove that “the only real nation is humanity.” 715-352-3155. [MCPL Edgar]
Hatley Book Club: "The House of My Mother" by Shari Franke Tues. 8/11. 1:00 p.m. Raised in front of 2.5 million subscribers who saw everything but the dark reality of a picture-perfect family, Shari Franke shares the truly shocking story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and how she was able to find freedom and healing in the face of unimaginable pain. 715-446-3537. [MCPL Hatley]
Athens Book Club: "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah Tues. 8/11. 2:00 p.m. The great depression and a brutal drought are forcing Texan Elsa Marinelli to make an impossible decision: stay and fight for the land she loves, or go west in search of a better life. Even in one of America’s darkest eras, Kristin Hannah spins a tale of love, heroism, and hope. 715-257-7292. [MCPL Athens]
Mosinee Book Club: "The Identicals" by Elin Hilderbrand Mon. 8/17. 2:00 p.m. One summer, two estranged twin sisters switch lives. Fashionable Tabitha Frost moves back to Martha’s Vineyard, and chaotic Harper relocates to Nantucket. This beachy “parent trap” plot will have readers surprised and laughing until the very end. 715-693-2144. [MCPL Mosinee]
Stratford Book Club: "The Book Club for Troublesome Women" by Marie Bostwick Daytime and evening dates: Wed. 8/19. 1:00 p.m. & Tues. 8/25. 5:30 p.m. On the outside, four suburban housewives live a perfect life. Even they think so (or tell themselves they think so), but a book club reveals the cracks in the foundation and the power in sisterhood and books. 715-687-4420. [MCPL Stratford]
Wausau Book Club: "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver Thurs. 8/27. 5:30 p.m. 715-261-7230. An evangelical Baptist family moves to the Belgian Congo in 1959, bringing with them everything they think they will need to fulfill their mission there; however, once they arrive, the land begins rejecting the family’s seeds, scripture, and firmly held beliefs. [MCPL Wausau]
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