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\"Adult<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i>Book Club<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i>Programs<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i>Summer Reading Programs<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Matheson Memorial Library hosts three book clubs per month.\u00a0 You can check out a copy of the book club selection 3-4 weeks prior to the book club meeting. Meetings for the book clubs are held at the library and are facilitated by staff librarians.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2025\/2026 Selections:<\/h1><\/span>
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Page Turners Book Club<\/h3>\n

Meets on the 1st Wednesday at 6:30 pm.<\/h4>\n
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  • Jan. 8, 2025: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Feb. 5, 2025: Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose<\/li>\n
  • Mar. 5, 2025: Listen for the Lies by Amy Tintera<\/li>\n
  • Apr. 2, 2025: The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church<\/li>\n
  • May 7, 2025: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown<\/li>\n
  • Jun. 4, 2025: Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight<\/li>\n
  • Jul. 2, 2025: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  • Aug. 6, 2025: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore<\/li>\n
  • Sept. 3, 2025: Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris<\/li>\n
  • Oct. 1, 2025: The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick<\/li>\n
  • Nov. 5, 2025: We Would Never by Tova Mirvis<\/li>\n
  • Dec. 3, 2025: The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison<\/li>\n
  • Jan. 7, 2026: Heartwood by Amity Gaige<\/li>\n
  • Feb. 4, 2026: Culpability by Bruce Holsinger<\/li>\n
  • Mar. 4, 2026: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall<\/li>\n
  • Apr. 1, 2026: My Friends by Fredrik Backman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    Afternoon Book Club<\/h3>\n

    Meets on the 3rd Tuesday at 2:00 pm.<\/h4>\n
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    • Jan. 21, 2025: Go as a River by Shelley Read<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Feb. 18, 2025: The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel<\/li>\n
    • Mar. 18, 2025: The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange<\/li>\n
    • Apr. 15, 2025: The Women by Kristin Hannah<\/li>\n
    • May 20, 2025: Diva by Daisy Goodwin<\/li>\n
    • Jun. 17, 2025: Everyone Here is Lying by Sheri Lapena<\/li>\n
    • Jul. 15, 2025: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    • Aug. 19, 2025: A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey<\/li>\n
    • Sept. 16, 2025: Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate<\/li>\n
    • Oct. 14, 2025: The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa<\/li>\n
    • Nov. 18, 2025: A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira<\/li>\n
    • Jan. 20, 2026: What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange<\/li>\n
    • Feb. 17, 2026: Eddie Winston is Looking for Love\u00a0by Marianne Cronin<\/li>\n
    • Mar. 17, 2026: The Greatest Lie of All\u00a0by Jillian Cantor<\/li>\n
    • No Book Club in April!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Short Story Book Club<\/h3>\n

      Meets on the 4th Tuesday at the Bunker Bar & Grill (N6246 US-12 at the Evergreen Golf Club in Elkhorn) at 7:00 pm.<\/h4>\n
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      • Jan. 28, 2025: <\/span>The Basement Room by Graham Greene<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Mar. 25, 2025: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n
      • Apr. 22, 2025: They Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n
      • May 27, 2025: The Appropriation of Cultures Percival Everett<\/li>\n
      • Jun. 24, 2025: The Hidden Forests of Earth and Mars by Anna Zumbro<\/li>\n
      • Jul. 22, 2025: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
      • Aug. 26, 2025: Graham Greene by Percival Everett<\/li>\n
      • Sept. 23, 2025: How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery by E. F. Benson<\/li>\n
      • Oct. 28, 2025: One For the Road by Stephen King<\/li>\n
      • Nov. 18, 2025: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry<\/li>\n
      • Jan. 27, 2026: Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken<\/li>\n
      • Feb. 24, 2026: The Bet by Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n
      • Mar. 24, 2026: A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro<\/li>\n
      • Apr. 28, 2026: My Side of the Matter by Truman Capote<\/li>\n
      • May 26, 2026: Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera by Ben Fountain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4224,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/10201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}