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 at the library for a discussion and review of “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman. Books are available at the Morristown Branch library for checkout. You do not have to be a member of the literary society to participate, and you don’t need to have finished the book to attend.

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.

Today, the book club will discuss Still Life by Louise Penny, which inspired "Three Pines" on Prime Video. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a fixture in the tiny hamlet, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident, but is it?

Contact Pam at the library for a book.

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?

Today, the book club will discuss members’ favorite book as we recap our year of reading. Bring your favorite book or passage to share and discuss at Shelby Senior Services. The address is 2120 Intelliplex Drive, Suite 101, in the same building as the YMCA.

Contact Pam through Senior Services or the Shelby County Public Library if you need her to deliver a book for the Horizon Center Book Club.

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.

Today, the book club will discuss “Christmas By the Book” by Marie Ryan. Just read the book on your own, then come for the discussion at Shelby Senior Services. The address is 2120 Intelliplex Drive, Suite 101, in the same building as the YMCA.

In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times spread Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere.

Contact Pam through Senior Services or the Shelby County Public Library, and she will deliver the book for the Horizon Center Book Club.

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!

Our cookbook club meets on the last Tuesday of most months at 6:30 pm -- NOTE DATE CHANGE! We're meeting on October 24th at 6:30 to discuss the Mystery Writers of America Cookbook. Sure, they can write a great mystery, but how's their cooking? Let's find out together.

Cookbooks are available for checkout at the Morristown Branch. Choose a recipe from the cookbook and make a dish to bring and share during the meeting!

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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Today, the book club will discuss “Still Life” by Louise Penny. Just read the book on your own, then come for the discussion at Shelby Senior Services. The address is 2120 Intelliplex Drive, Suite 101, in the same building as the YMCA. Monsieur L’Inspecteur Armand Gamache is a modern-day Poirot. Jane Neal, a local fixture in Three Pines has been found dead. The locals think it’s a tragic hunting accident, but Gamache doesn’t.

Contact Pam through Senior Services or the Shelby County Public Library, and she will deliver the book for the Horizon Center Book Club.

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.

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.

Join the Book Club @The Horizon Center on Thursday, Aug. 10, to discuss the Shelby County Reads Adult selection, “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name” by Alaska State Writer Laureate Heather Lende. Meet at Shelby Senior Services in Suite 101, inside the YMCA, at 1 pm to discuss the books.

Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the going-on in this close-knit town—from births to weddings to funerals—she does.

Like Garrison Keillor's reports from the Midwest, NPR commentator Heather Lende's take on her offbeat Alaskan hometown celebrates life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place.

Contact Pam at the library, 317-398-7121, to have her deliver a book, or pick one up inside the library by the circulation desk.

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.

Join us as we talk about “Camp Morton” and learn more Indiana History.

Meet in the Carnegie East Wing, Room A at 3 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Discussion is led by Donna Dennison, Genealogy and History Department head. Call 317-398-7002 or email ddennison@sscpl.lib.in.us for more information.

Indiana History Book Club monthly selections for adults are available inside the Genealogy and History offices.

Join the Book Club @The Horizon Center on Thursday, May 11 to discuss “A Madness So Discreet” by Mindy McGinnis. Meet at Shelby Senior Services in Suite 101, inside the YMCA, at 1 pm to discuss the book by the award-winning Young Adult author.

Grace Mae, in “A Madness So Discreet,” is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum. But, it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life.

Contact Pam at the library, 317-398-7121, to have her deliver a book, or pick one up inside the library by the circulation desk.

McGinnis will speak at the main Shelbyville branch meeting room on May 16 to discuss her writing and her newest book, published in March. She will have her new book for sale and will sign copies.

Join the Book Club @The Horizon Center on Thursday, June 8, to discuss a double selection, both called “Killing Custer:“ Margaret Coel is the fiction choice, while James Welch penned the nonfiction book. Meet at Shelby Senior Services in Suite 101, inside the YMCA, at 1 pm to discuss the books.

Welch’s “Killing Custer” is the classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. Coel’s “Killing Custer” is part of the Wind River Mystery Book series, which focuses on a murder of a Custer impersonator during a Battle of Little Big Horn re-enactment.

Contact Pam at the library, 317-398-7121, to have her deliver a book, or pick one up inside the library by 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.

Join the Book Club @The Horizon Center on Thursday, May 11 to discuss “A Madness So Discreet” by Mindy McGinnis. Meet at Shelby Senior Services in Suite 101, inside the YMCA, at 1 pm to discuss the book by the award-winning Young Adult author.

Grace Mae, in “A Madness So Discreet,” is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum. But, it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life.

Contact Pam at the library, 317-398-7121, to have her deliver a book, or pick one up inside the library by the circulation desk.

McGinnis will speak at the main Shelbyville branch meeting room on May 16 to discuss her writing and her newest book, published in March. She will have her new book for sale and will sign copies.

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.

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.