Truro Library Book Group – “North Woods” by Daniel Mason
Truro Library Book Group January selection is North Woods by Daniel Mason A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning,… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “First Lie Wins” by Ashley Elston
Truro Library Book Group January selection is First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt
Truro Library Book Group January selection is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely… Read More
Virtual Mystery Book Club – “The Widows of Malabar Hill” by Sujata Massey
Mystery Book Club on Zoom February selection is The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey 1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Canary Girls” by Jennifer Chiaverini
Truro Library Book Group December selection is Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built… Read More
Virtual Mystery Book Club – “Murder Your Employer” by Rupert Holmes
Mystery Book Club on Zoom December selection is Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes Monday, December 2nd @ 6:00 p.m. on Zoom Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Lessons in Chemistry ” by Bonnie Garmus
Truro Library Book Group November selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Wednesday, December 4 @ 2:00 p.m. “In Garmus’s debut novel, a frustrated chemist finds herself at the helm of a cooking show that sparks a… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Beneath A Scarlet Sky” by Mark Sullivan
Truro Library Book Group October selection is Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel” by Douglas Brunt
Truro Library Book Group September selection is The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power
Truro Library Book Group August selection is Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The River We Remember” by William Kent Krueger
Truro Library Book Group July selection is The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by… Read More
A Taste for Trollope: Reading Group
Welcome to A Taste for Trollope, a Truro Library reading group devoted to the British novel in the 19th century. Anthony Trollope is perhaps the most beloved — and certainly the most prolific — of all the Victorian novelists. He takes… Read More
A Taste for Trollope : Reading Group
Welcome to A Taste for Trollope, a Truro Library reading group devoted to the British novel in the 19th century. Anthony Trollope is perhaps the most beloved — and certainly the most prolific — of all the Victorian novelists. He takes… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
Truro Library Book Group May selection is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The Color of Water” by James McBride
Truro Library Book Group May selection is The Color of Water by James McBride Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared “light-skinned” woman evasive… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
Truro Library Book Group April selection is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
Truro Library Book Group March selection is Horse by Geraldine Brooks Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Little Village of Book Lovers” by Nina George
Truro Library Book Group February selection is Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. “This spin-off of George’s beloved The Little Paris Bookshop—this… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” by David Grann
Truro Library Book Group January selection is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. “An engrossing survival story…THE WAGER… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Looking for Jane”
Truro Library Book Group October selection is Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The Personal Librarian”
Truro Library Book Group October selection is The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s… Read More
Trollope Book Group
ANTHONY TROLLOPE READING GROUP Meet with a classics enthusiast and stroll the highways and byways of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire. The first and third Thursday of the month. If you are interested but are not available at that time,… Read More
Trollope Book Group
ANTHONY TROLLOPE READING GROUP ON ZOOM UNTIL JUNE 6 PLEASE EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION Meet with a classics enthusiast and stroll the highways and byways of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire. The first and third Thursday of the month. If… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Truro Library Book Group October selection is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “The Reading List” by Sara Nisha Adams
Truro Library Book Group September selection is The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Bone Gap” by Laura Ruby
Truro Library Book Group August selection is Bone Gap by Laura Ruby “Ruby’s novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary.”—School Library Journal Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps. So when young,… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – “Freedom” by Sebastian Junger
Truro Library Book Group July selection is Freedom by Sebastian Junger. Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside when possible) the Library…. Read More
Trollope Book Group
ANTHONY TROLLOPE READING GROUP Meet with a classics enthusiast and stroll the highways and byways of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire. The first and third Thursday of the month. If you are interested but are not available at that time,… Read More
Trollope Book Group
ANTHONY TROLLOPE READING GROUP ON ZOOM UNTIL JUNE 6, PLEASE EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION Meet with a classics enthusiast and stroll the highways and byways of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire. The first and third Thursday of the month. If… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid : The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson
Truro Library Book Group The June selection is Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion…. Read More
Truro Library Book Group – The World to Come by Dara Horn
Truro Library Book Group The May selection is The World to Come by Dara Horn Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Truro Library Book Group The April selection is Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside when… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 by John Taylor Williams
Truro Library Book Group The March selection is The Shores of Bohemia : A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 by John Taylor Williams Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Truro Library Book Group The February selection is Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside when possible)… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Truro Library Book Group The January selection is Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group… Read More
Truro Library Book Group – The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Truro Library Book Group The December selection is The Huntress by Kate Quinn Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside when possible) the… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — Ike and Dick : Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank
Truro Library Book Group The November selection is Ike and Dick : Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — Saturday by Ian McEwan
Truro Library Book Group The October selection is Saturday by Ian McEwan Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside when possible) the… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — A Woman of No Importance : The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
Truro Library Book Group The September selection is A Woman of No Importance : The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell Books will be available at the circulation desk… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Truro Library Book Group The August selection is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Books will be available at the circulation desk a few weeks before the discussion. The Book group is now meeting inside (or outside… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Truro Library Book Group The July selection is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Books will be available in-library or curbside pickup. The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If you would like to join virtually,… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — Breath : The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
Truro Library Book Group The June selection is Breath : The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor Books will be available in-library or curbside pickup. The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington by Ted Widmer
Truro Library Book Group The April selection is Lincoln on the Verge : Thirteen Days to Washington by Ted Widmer Books will be available in-library or curbside pickup. The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — Travels with George : In Search of His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
Truro Library Book Group The March selection is Travels with George : In Search of His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE MAGICIAN by Colm Toíbín
Truro Library Book Club The February selection is The Magician by Colm Toíbín The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie to receive an Zoom invite. Selected… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles
Truro Library Book Club The January selection is Rules of Civility by Amor Towles The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie to receive an Zoom invite…. Read More
Truro Library Book Group — SUSAN, LINDA, NINA, & COKIE by Lisa Napoli
Truro Library Book Club The December selection is Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli The Book group is now meeting inside the Library. If you would like… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE CODE BREAKER by Walter Isaacson
Truro Library Book Club The November selection is The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson The Book group has been meeting outdoors behind the Library. If you would… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa
Truro Library Book Club The October selection is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa The Book group has been meeting outdoors behind the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie to receive an Zoom… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — AKIN by Emma Donaghue
Truro Library Book Club The September selection is Akin by Emma Donaghue The Book group has been meeting outdoors behind the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie to receive an Zoom invite. Noah… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — COME FLY THE WORLD by Julia Cook
Truro Library Book Club The August selection is Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cook The Book group has been meeting outdoors behind the Library. If you would like… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM by Marie Benedict
Truro Library Book Club The May selection is The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE SCOUT’S ACCOUNT by Paul Brodeur
Truro Library Book Club The June selection is The Scout’s Account : In the Shadow of the Mayflower by Paul Brodeur The Scout’s Account tells the story of a young Wampanoag warrior named Squeteague who is sent by… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — BORN STANDING UP by Steve Martin
Truro Library Book Club The July selection is Born Standing Up : A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin The Book group has been meeting outdoors behind the Library. If you would like to join virtually, please email Maggie… Read More
Truro Library (Virtual) Book Group — REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler
Truro Library Book Club The April selection is Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER* • *LONGLISTED FOR THE… Read More
Truro Library (Virtual) Book Group — OUR MAN by George Packer
Truro Library Book Club The March selection is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize… Read More
Truro Library (Virtual) Book Group — NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Erdrich
Truro Library Book Club The February selection is Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2020 • AMAZON BEST… Read More
Truro Library (Virtual) Book Group — OLIVE, AGAIN: A NOVEL by Elizabeth Strout
Truro Library Book Club The January selection is Olive, Again: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND ONE… Read More
ONLINE: Truro Library Book Group — The Greater Journey by David McCullough
Truro Library Book Club The December selection is The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story… Read More
ONLINE: Truro Library Book Group — The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Truro Library Book Club The November selection is The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. Part travel… Read More
ONLINE: Truro Library Book Group — A BEND IN THE STARS by Rachel Berenbaum
Truro Library Book Club The October selection is A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Berenbaum. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and… Read More
ONLINE: Truro Library Book Group — THE UNWINDING: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
Truro Library Book Club The September selection is the The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES… Read More
ONLINE: Truro Library Book Group — FURIOUS HOURS by Casey Cep
Truro Library Book Club The August selection is the Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep. Please email Maggie to receive the Zoom invite to this program. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK… Read More
SUSPENDED: Truro Library Book Group — CIRCE by Madeline Miller
Truro Library Book Club The March selection is the Circe by Madeline Miller. #1 New York Times Bestseller — named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29,… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O’Brien
Truro Library Book Club January’s selection is the American Classic The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. “[An] ultimate, indelible image of war in our time, and in time to come.” — Los Angeles Time Since it burst onto… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — CLEMENTINE: THE LIFE OF MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL by Sonia Purnell
Truro Library Book Club December’s selection is Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. “Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York Times A long overdue… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR by Ben Macintyre
Truro Library Book Club November’s selection is The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ If… Read More
Truro Library Book Group — TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
Truro Library Book Club Wednesday, October 30 , 6:00 p.m. October’s selection is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. “Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for intellectually or developmentally disabled adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape. The fall session begins on September 26 and continues through December 19. We… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for intellectually or developmentally disabled adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape. The fall session begins on September 26 and continues through December 19. We… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for intellectually or developmentally disabled adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape. The fall session begins on September 26 and continues through December 19. We… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for intellectually or developmentally disabled adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape. The fall session begins on September 26 and continues through December 19. We… Read More