SEPTEMBER 2024 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Cartoon & Conservation: A Visit with Ding Darling presented by Tom Milligan Saturday, September 7th @ 10:00 a.m.
Potluck Club Monday, September 9th @ noon.
Book Club Monday, September 9th @ 5:00 p.m.
Books & Badges Thursday, September 12th @ 10:00 a.m.
NEW BOOKS
All in the Family by Fred Trump. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. It’s a story of power, love, money, cruelty, and the unshakable bonds of family, played out underneath a glaring media spotlight.
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult. Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost?
Final Justice by John Legg. Jace Coppersmith, a marshal in a Colorado Territory town, makes the tough decision to hand in his badge and leave his fiancée to help a friend, Travis Van Horn, in Kansas. Van Horn, who trained Coppersmith in the ways of the bounty hunter, is being forced to commit crimes by an outlaw who has abducted Van Horn’s five-year-old daughter, a child he has never really known. Coppersmith enlists the help of Van Horn’s brother in the search for the missing child, but the search and its aftermath spawn a feud between the two old friends that can only be solved with gunfire.
The Gold Train by Robert Vaughan. The train-top murder of one of his female operatives has thrust Matthew Faraday, the wily chief of Faraday Security Service, into the dark and twisting tunnel of another railroad mystery, and a coded message in the dead woman’s pocket is the only clue.
Joy by Danielle Steel. In this deeply moving novel a determined young woman must survive a series of abandonments to find a love that is worthy of her.
The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini. The Museum of Lost Quilts is a warm and deeply moving story about the power of collective memory. With every fascinating quilt she studies, Summer finds her passion for history renewed—and discovers a promising new future for herself.
Never Enough by Andrew Wilkinson.By the age of thirty-five, Andrew Wilkinson had built a business worth over a billion dollars, but his path to success was anything but a straight line. Never Enough shares both the lessons Wilkinson has learned as well as the many mistakes made on the road to wealth–some of which cost him money, happiness, and important relationships.
Southern Man by Greg Iles. Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn’s self-imposed exile ends abruptly when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting–one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown Black group claims the fires as acts of justice, panic ensues, driving the Mississippi River town to the brink of war.
NEW MOVIES
Arthur the King: PG-13. Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Based on an incredible true story, Arthur the King follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean. Cast Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman, Bear Grylls, Paul Guilfoyle.
The Fall Guy: PG-13. He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Ghostbusters-Frozen Empire: PG-1 The Spengler family returns to where it all started, the iconic New York City firehouse, to team up with the original Ghostbusters gang, who have developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient relic unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age3. Cast Paul Rudd, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Annie Potts, Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Bill Murray, Patton Oswalt, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd.
If: PG. A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone’s imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up. Cast Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, Steve Carell, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr.