the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
A guard at the Met shares a behind the scenes look at working at the museum, along with his visceral and emotional experience…
Events Calendar
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Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "The Family Chao" by Lan Samantha Chang. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin,…
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*Offsite
Join us for a book discussion of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind (and Other Dangers of Southern Living)" by Bailey White. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff for location or…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in…
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Conference Room 104
In Renaissance Italy, the brief life of Lucrezia de’Medici, married at age 15 to an Italian Duke, then murdered (probably by her husband), is explored in this novel that paints the time and place…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "The London Séance Society" by Sarah Penner. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"1873. At an abandoned château on…
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Madison Public Library Foundation's 2025 Lunch for Libraries event will feature Abraham Verghese, M.D. He will appear live at Monona Terrace to discuss his latest…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion of "The Coworker" by Frieda McFadden. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work…
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Join us for a book discussion of "Family Lore" by Elizabeth Acevedo. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff for location or Zoom link.
"Flor has a gift: she can…
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Conference Room 104
an Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Escaping slavery in Georgia, Ellen Craft, who could pass for white, disguised herself as wealthy invalid man, and her husband William…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "Everybody Knows" by Jordan Harper. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where…
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Join us for a book discussion of "The Violin Conspiracy" by Brendan Slocumb. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff for location or Zoom link.
"Ray McMillian loves…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion of "Tastes Like War" by Grace Cho. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town…
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Conference Room 104
Two stories, 200 years apart, centered on an apothecary shop in London and the vials sold to women looking to be rid of the men in their lives. Join us for discussion and sometimes dessert.…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "What Happened to Nina?" by Dervla McTiernan. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Nina and Simon are the perfect…
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Join us for a book discussion of "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff for location or Zoom link.
"In the small town of Holt, Colorado…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
Potpourri! Read anything that you like and come to discuss with the…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River…
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Join us for a book discussion of "God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine" by Victoria Sweet. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion of "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East" by Sandy Tolan. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"In…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "The Golden Spoon" by Jessa Maxwell. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Every summer for the past ten years, six…
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Join us for a book discussion of "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel. New members always welcome! Please check with library staff for location or Zoom link.
"This classic love…
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Community Room - Fireplace Side
Join us for a book group discussion of "The Water Keeper" by Charles Martin. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance…