Name: Best Seller Book Club: Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Start: 2026-04-25T15:30:00-04:00
Location: James Blackstone Memorial Library

James Blackstone Memorial Library

Have you ever thought about joining a book club? It’s a fun way to get connected, make new friends, and read more books! In the Best Seller Book Club, we read and discuss newly released, highly rated books from a wide variety of genres. This month we're reading <a href="https://br.catalog.lionlibraries.org/GroupedWork/f52bc1b2-144f-6382-5478-541af570cf9e/Home?searchId=175394501&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;searchSource=local" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lake Effect </a>by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney.
Registration is required to receive a link to this ONLINE event.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Blackstone Library.
The
 Blackstone Library has a limited number of copies of these titles 
available for book club participants. If you are interested in obtaining
 a library copy, please call us at (203) 488-1441 ext. 318 or email 
programs@blackstonelibrary.org. Copies are first come, first served.

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