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A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for EVENING ZOOM or on Tuesday, February 20, for DAYTIME IN PERSON! Registration required.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.
We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues: Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is required.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of romance, race, and justice, introducing a Black Texas Ranger as detective.
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When Darren's allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before the town's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.
Click on the links to order the book in print, eBook or eAudiobook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch.
"In 'Bluebird, Bluebird,' Attica Locke has both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Attica Locke is a writer whose first novel, "Black Water Rising," was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, a 2010 NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for an Orange Prize in the UK.
Attica is also a screenwriter who has written movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was also a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University.
A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
