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MCL Book Club

MCL Book Club

Marion Carnegie Library’s Book Club meets on a Saturday morning each month in MCL’s McCoskey Room. During each meeting, we discuss a book selected by members of the community. Book Club is  a very low-pressure arrangement and is a great way to get to know other book lovers. We hope to see you there! 📚

MCL Book Club - Current Pick

Click the cover of MCL Book Club’s current selection to find it in the card catalog!

Her life didn’t turn out the way she expected–so she made herself a new one

When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn’t there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture?

And although what Clemmie finds is a work of art, what the police find is a body. . . and she was the last person at the crime scene, where she left her fingerprints. Suddenly thrown into the heart of a twisted investigation, Clemmie finds herself the uncomfortable subject of intense scrutiny. And the bland, quiet life Clemmie has built for herself in her sleepy South Carolina retirement community comes crashing down as her dark past surges into the present.

MCL Book Club Selections

Working ahead or revisiting past favorites? Click the title of any of MCL Book Club’s previous or upcoming selections to find it in the card catalog!

January/February 2026 – Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney

March 2026 – Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

April 2026 – Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

May 2026 – Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney

January 2025 – How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

February 2025 – Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley

March 2025 – Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

April 2025 – Our Little Secret by Lisa Jackson

May 2025 – All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

June 2025 – The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

July 2025 – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

August 2025 – Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

September 2025 – A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon

October 2025 – Starling House by Alix Harrow

November 2025 – Booked for Murder by P. J. Nelson

December 2025 – Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: a rare book collector’s quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend by Rebecca Romney

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