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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:

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."

January: The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang

"In 19th-century China, Little Flower, a maidservant with bound feet and a rare talent for embroidery, navigates life under the cruel daughter of the Fong family, but when scandal casts them both into the Celibate Sisterhood, her newfound status attracts deadly risks and tests of loyalty."

February: Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

"Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead. And it is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life. When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life."

March: Vanishing Treasures- A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell

"The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness."

April: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

"On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier."