May’s book is by Tom Hanks! The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Show is a New York Times best seller and an NPR book of the Year. From the legendary actor and best-selling author comes a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story—all created by Tom Hanks himself—including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel’s "major motion picture masterpiece."

The Indiana History Book Club will meet today at 3 pm in the Carnegie East Wing Annex in Room A. The discussion will be about “Indiana’s Historic National Road.” Donna will hand out May’s book of the month, “Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.”

For more information or books, please contact the Genealogy & History Department by coming in or calling 317-398-7002. Contact the department through email at genealgoy@sscpl.lib.in.us.

Join us for a grown-up evening reading and reviewing books with a little *spice.* From romantasy to some darker tastes, this book club is for exploring BookTok sensations and other recs! Reading Choice: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Join the Book Group @ The Bookmark at noon Tuesday, April 16 for this gripping nonfiction account about a disastrous fire in the LA library.

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?

Join us for a grown-up evening reading and reviewing books with a little *spice.* From romantasy to some darker tastes, this book club is for exploring BookTok sensations and other recs! Reading Choice: “Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir

This month, the book group is reading “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake” by Tiya Miles.

Just read the book on your own then come for discussion on Thursday, March 14 at 1 pm to Shelby Senior Services, inside the YMCA, 2120 Intelliplex Drive, Suite 101, Shelbyville IN 46176. Discussion lead by Pam Weakley of the Shelby County Public Library.

Join the library’s Amanda White to discuss The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman on Tuesday, March 19 from 12 pm to 1 pm at The Bookmark, 9 Public Square, Shelbyville, IN 46161.

Books are available at the circulation desk in Adult Services on the main floor of the Shelby County Public Library, Shelbyville Branch. You don’t have to be finished with the book to join the discussion!

For questions, contact adultservices@sscpl.lib.in.us or call the library at 317-398-7121.

Join us for a grown-up evening reading and reviewing books with a little *spice.* From romantasy to some darker tastes, this book club is for exploring BookTok sensations and other recs! Reading Choice: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. We will meet from noon to 1 pm in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . . Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk.

Join us at the library for a discussion and review of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Books are available at the Morristown Branch library for checkout.

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel and series opener explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. We will meet from noon to 1 pm in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . . Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk.

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet Tuesday, Nov. 7, to discuss Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. This meeting is a week earlier than normal due to the Indiana Library Association conference meeting at our normal time. We will meet at our regularly scheduled time of noon in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

Books are available at the Shelbyville Main branch’s circulation desk, or read that copy leftover from high school that is still on your home bookshelf!

The Indiana History Book Club meets the first Wednesday of each month at 3 pm in the Carnegie East Wing Room A. The discussion is led by Donna Dennison, head of the Genealogy & History Department of the Shelby County Public Library. Books may be picked up inside the Annex.

This month, members are to continue reading The Pioneers by David McCullough. Those who have finished The Pioneers are to bring in an Indiana history book to share with the group.

Attention: the Book Club @ The Bookmark has cancelled its meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 17. Transfers of books through the Indiana Evergreen Consortium have slowed deliveries, meaning the requested copies of Stiff have not yet arrived in Shelbyville.

The Book Club @ The Bookmark will meet at its next regularly scheduled time on Nov. 7 at noon in the Bookmark Cafe, 9 Public Square.

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The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe at 9 Public Square to discuss “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

Boulley's debut novel is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. It has been selected as a Shelby County Reads book. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother.

When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she is thrust into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

Indiana History Book Club will discuss “Corydon: The Forgotten Battle of the Civil War” by W. Fred Conway at 3 pm in Carnegie East Wing Annex Room A. Discussion will be lead by Donna Dennison, genealogy and history department head. Books may be picked up in the Annex.

The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe on the Public Square to discuss “Calling Me Home” by Julie Kibler. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

Kibler weaves a story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.

Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

Kenneth Jewell Literary Society meets at 6:30 pm today at the Velma Wortman Morristown Branch to discuss “Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinarily Resilient Disabled Body” by Rebekah Tausig. Conversation will focus on disability in the modern world. Books are available for checkout at the Morristown library.

Shelby County’s theme for June is “All Together Now!” Two classic novels fit this theme perfectly: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. Join the Ken Jewell Literary Society while we discuss how these classic novels represent “All Together Now” and what we might learn through this theme.

Join the Ken Jewell Literary Society on Tuesday, June 13 at 6:30 pm. Pick up a novel at the circulation desk .

The Book Group @The Bookmark will meet at the cafe on the Public Square to discuss “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein. Enjoy lunch or a snack while we discuss!

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, “The Art of Racing in the Rain” is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life … as only a dog could tell it.

Books are available at the Shelby County Public Library. No membership needed to join the free group.

Ken Jewell Literary Society will meet to discuss Ducks: Two Years in Oil Sands by Kate Beaton. The society will meet in the library. Books may be picked up at the front desk. Ducks is a national winner is three categories: personal nonfiction, memoir, and graphic novel.

After university, Katie Beaton heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush with the singular goal of paying off her student loans because few jobs are found in Eastern Canada. Arriving in Fort McMurray, Katie finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world's largest oil companies. As one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. For young Katie, her wounds may never heal.

A New York Times bestselling cartoonist, Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains.

The Indiana History Book Group will gather in the Indiana Room to discuss “Crazy Good: the Story of Dan Patch” by Charles Leerhsen. Leerhsen vividly recounts a time 100 years ago when a racehorse thrilled America and became a legend.

“Crazy Good” is the story of America in simpler times, when the automobile was a novelty and most people preferred horses; an era when horse racing— pacers and trotters—was a dominant sport of the day.

Indiana History Book Group meets the first Wednesday of each month. Pick up the next month’s book from Donna Dennison, department head, in the Genealogy & History Department in the Annex. Contact Donna with questions by phone: 317-398-7002; or by email: ddennison@sscpl.lib.in.us

Join the Book Group @ The Bookmark at noon as they discuss “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, international best-selling novelist of “How To Stop TIme.”

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?In “The Midnight Library,” Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Pick up a copy of “The Midnight Library” at the circulation desk in Adult Services of the library. There is no cost and no membership required to join the book club.

Join us at Shelby Senior Services in the Horizon Center as we discuss Horse by Geraldine Brooks.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

Contact the library to have Pam Weakley deliver a book to the Senior Center or stop by the Shelbyville Branch to pick up a copy.

Join the Ken Jewell Literary Society while we discuss Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Take My Hand is a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Novel in 2022. Inspired by true events of the health care system in the South during the 1970s, this novel overflows with hope.

Books are available for checkout at the Morristown library.

Spread the history like apple seeds as we read “Johnny Seed: Man and Myth” by Robert Price.

Meet in the Carnegie East Wing for the discussion and to receive information about May’s book club.

Join the Ken Jewell Literary Society while we discuss An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Books are available for checkout at the Morristown Library. The society will meet inside the library on Tuesday, March 14th, as well.

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world.

Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses because in order to understand our world we need to see through other eyes.

Join us at Shelby Senior Services in the Horizon Center as we discuss In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund, a delightful YA based on the murder-mystery game Clue.

Indiana History Book Club will meet Wed. March 1 at 3 pm in the Carnegie East Wing of the Shelby County Public Library. We will discuss A Belief in Providence: the Life of St. Theodora Guerin by Julie Young.

This book club typically meets on the first Wednesday of most months in conjunction with the Genealogy and History Dept. of the library.

Join us at The Bookmark for lunch or a snack as we discuss “The Magnolia Place” by Fiona Davis. Davis returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions that spans five decades.