Events
Join us to discuss the book: Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of…
Books on Tap is back in person!In May we'll be back in person (after a long break) to discuss the New York Times Bestseller On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and…
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Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston.About the book:A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown…
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Join a totally different book club for kids! Each month we will read and discuss books from different categories. You get to pick any book you want, as long as it fits the category!
Category: Mythology
If you need help picking a book,…
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Books on Tap is back!In June we'll be back in person to discuss the National Book Award Finalist Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho in honor of Immigrant Heritage Month. In this searing memoir, Cho (Haunting the Korean…
Join us to discuss the book, They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera.Imagine a world in which everyone who is about to die receives the shocking news in advance by phone, and you have the premise of the wildly imaginative new…
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Join a totally different book club for kids! Each month we will read and discuss books from different categories. You get to pick any book you want, as long as it fits the category!
Categories TBD.
If you need help picking a book, please…
Registration required (44 spots remaining)Register for event Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of Ask Again Yes by Mary Beth Keane.About the book:How much can a family forgive?Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind…
Literature meets art in the TAM Book Club! With book selections inspired by exhibitions at Tacoma Art Museum, join TAM staff and other creative folks for bimonthly discussions of art, writing, and our Tacoma community.This event will be…
Join Tacoma Public Library and the LGBTQ book club in discussing Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
About the book:
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment…
Books on Tap is back!In July we'll be back in person to discuss The Whispering Door by TJ Klune in honor of LGBQTA+ month.A dead man reconsiders his life in this charming fantasy from Klune (The House in the Cerulean…
Join us to discuss the book, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house…
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Join a totally different book club for kids! Each month we will read and discuss books from different categories. You get to pick any book you want, as long as it fits the category!
Categories TBD.
If you need help picking a book, please…
Registration required (44 spots remaining)Register for event Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of Afterlife by Julia Alvarez.About the book:Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college…
Books on Tap is back!In August we'll be discussing the sci fi classic, Dune. We'll pay homage to the author and Tacoma native, Frank Herbert, and the namesake of the beloved Dune Peninsula Park near Ruston.You can use your library…
Join us to discuss the book, Middle Passage by Charles Johnson.
A savage parable of the black experience in America, Johnson's picaresque novel begins in 1830 when Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed Illinois slave eking out a…
