Join the Alicia Ashman book club for lively, thoughtful discussions every first Thursday of the month (excluding December). Everyone is welcome and books are available at the Checkout Desk week of the event.
This Month's Read
The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
A mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. Off the coast of Patagonia, on January 28, 1742, thirty survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain, tell an extraordinary tale. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they had a very different story to tell…