Thank you to everyone who made it out to Books at the Bar last night to discuss "Dumplin'!" Our March selection is "Hidden Valley Road" by Robert Kolker.
A limited number of copies are available for check out at the HCCPL Front Desk.
Books at the Bar will next meet at 6 p.m. March 26 at Hopkinsville Brewing Comany, 102 E. Fifth St.
For more information, call 270-887-4262.

Books at the Bar is scheduled for Books at the Bar is scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 23 at Hopkinsville Brewing Company, 102 E. Fifth St.

This month's selection is “The Rules of Magic,” by Alice Hoffman. A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the HCCPL Front Desk.

For more information, call 270-887-4262.

Books at the Bar will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 29 at Hopkinsville Brewing Company, 102 E. Fifth St., to discuss this month's selection, "Anthem," a novel by Noah Hawley.

A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the HCCPL Front Desk. For more information, call 270-887-4262.

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This month we're talking about "One Little Lie" by Colleen Coble. Copies are available to check out at the library front desk.

Discussion will take place at Hopkinsville Brewing Company.

Summary of "One Little Lie" from Goodreads:

It started with one little lie. But Jane Hardy will do everything in her power to uncover the truth.

Book one in a gripping new series from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble.

When Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, there's no time for an adjustment period. He is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, and Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy her father.

They escaped from a cult fifteen years ago, and Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother—who refused to leave—ever since. Could someone from that horrible past have found them?

Reid Bechtol is a well-known journalist who makes documentaries, and his sights are currently set on covering Jane's career. Jane has little interest in the attention, but the committee who appointed her loves the idea of the publicity.

Jane finds herself depending on Reid's calm manner as he follows her around taping his documentary, and they begin working together to clear her father. But Reid has his own secrets from the past, and the gulf between them may be impossible to cross.

It started with one little lie. But Jane Hardy will do everything in her power to uncover the truth.

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This month we're talking about "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Copies are available to check out at the library front desk.

Discussion will take place at Hopkinsville Brewing Company.

Summary of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" from Goodreads:

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.

Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.

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This month we're talking about "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett. Copies are available to check out at the library front desk.

Discussion will take place at Hopkinsville Brewing Company.

Summary of "The Vanishing Half":

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.