The Montana Avenue Branch Book Group discusses both fiction and nonfiction.  Led by Randi Hutchinson, book club leader extraordinaire, we try to mix it up a little to keep everyone on their toes.  We try to choose books that are readily available in the library so that everyone can be read up for a fun discussion. Meet new people, stimulate your mind, and have a good time!

We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm, in the Montana Avenue Branch Library community room, 1704 Montana Avenue.  

Below is a listing of our upcoming selections.

 Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery

by Stephanie Barron

Jane goes to visit her friend Isobel, who has just wedded the elderly Earl of Scargrave. During a well-attended ball at the manor, the Earl ruins the weekend by getting murdered. Will the resourceful Jane be able to solve the mystery?
 

One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Todd

by Jim Fergus

In 1854, a Cheyenne chief requested that the U.S. Army provide a thousand white brides for the young warriors in his tribe. The U.S. refused, but Fergus considers what might have happened if a brides-for-Indians program had been instituted. The novel focuses on a young volunteer who was about to be institutionalized by her family for an unfortunate love affair.

Drawing on the same sources as Shakespeare used to create Twelfth Night, a comedy of misunderstandings, Gordon takes us back to Illyria fifteen years later to give us this mystery of misperceptions, misdirection, and double crosses.
 

Paranoia

by Joseph Finder

In this fast-paced and suspenseful novel, Adam Cassidy is a young, low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: going to prison - or becoming a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.