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Tuesday Night Book Club is the Ferguson Library's monthly adult readers book club. Book Club attendees learn, discover, explore, socialize, and, most importantly, talk about books! This club reads from a wide variety of genres including thrillers, literary fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction, mysteries, science fiction, and bestsellers. Future book selections are chosen by the club at each meeting.

Didn't finish this month's title? Don't worry about it! Finishing the book is not mandatory to attend.

Currently meeting: 4th Tuesday of each month, 5:00 PM in the library conference room

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*4/28 Pick* Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Meeting date:  CANCELED - April 28, 2020 ; Star rating:  not yet calculated Book Club meeting canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak.  Please visit  ferguson.lib.mo.us   for further information. Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late. Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once hear...
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*5/26 Pick* The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica

Meeting date: May 26, 2020 ; Star rating: not yet rated Propulsive and addictive, and perfect for fans of “You,” The Other Mrs. is the twisty new psychological thriller from Mary Kubica, the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it’s not just Morgan’s death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night. But Sadie must be careful, for the more she discovers about Mrs. Baines, the more she begins to realize just how much she has to lose if the truth ever comes to light. Comments from attendees: TBD
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Meeting date:  CANCELED - March 24, 2020 ; Star rating: not yet calculated Book Club meeting canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak.  Please visit  ferguson.lib.mo.us   for further information. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira uneart...
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