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Riverton Senior Center Book Club

Hey Seniors! Join us at the Riverton Senior Center the first Thursday of every month for Book Club. Call 385-468-3040 to register. 12914 S Redwood Road, just to the southeast of the library.

Books will be distributed at Book Club each month, or find a copy at the very end of the hold's area at Riverton Library. Registration is not required, but will send you monthly reminders if you would like them!

Schedule:

April: Penny Mansions by Steven Mayfield

"To save their homes from eminent domain, residents of a once booming town agree to sell four abandoned mansions for a penny apiece if the buyers will stay in town long enough to be counted in the 1920 census."

May: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

"When Arthur finds a charm bracelet belonging to his late wife, it sends him on a journey from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met."

June: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller (Field trip day! We will be meeting at the Senior Center at 12:15 and carpooling to Weller Book Works at Trolley Square followed by lunch at Desert Edge Pub! Please speak with a librarian at the Riverton Library to sign up.)

"Lula Dean's mission is to rid schools and libraries of all books she deems inappropriate, and she erects a Little Free Library filled with her chosen titles. But someone is changing the books by leaving the covers and substituting a wide variety of banned books."

July: All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen

"A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health."

August: The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

"A New York City bookseller stumbles upon a mysterious, magical book that can open any door, thrusting her into a dangerous world of secret libraries, powerful collectors, and a deadly pursuit led by a sinister woman who will stop at nothing to possess its secrets."

September: The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

"A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there."

October: The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan

"A murder mystery is set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies and, of course, a treasure lost to time."

November: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy

"Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a wife to Pete, an assistant professor at a Bible college. They’re the picture of domestic tranquility, until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond."

December: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass explains how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world."