Departures Hybrid Book Discussion – Thursdays @ 12:30pm
3/12 – Register – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
One of the classic detective novels that established the genre, The Big Sleep follows Philip Marlowe into an underworld of booze, violence, pornography, and sex, as he searches for the blackmailer of a millionaire’s daughter.
Hoopla eBook / Nassau Overdrive eBook / Book / LILINK Book on Compact Disc.
Flyer– Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
4/9 – Register – The Doorman by Chris Pavone. *This is the Long Island Reads selection for 2026*
Chicky Diaz, beloved doorman at the Bohemia – a world-famous apartment housing celebrities and elites – prepares for an eventful night as tensions rise across the city.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / Large Type / Book on Compact Disc.
Flyer– Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
5/7 – Register – Buckeye by Patrick Ryan.
Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of a long-ago encounter ripple through generations of families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.
Nassau Overdrive eBook /Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / Large Type / Book on Compact Disc.
Flyer– Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
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2/12 – Register – Trust by Hernan Diaz.
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New York City.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / Large Type
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
Truth Be Told… Nonfiction Hybrid Book Group – Thursdays @ 12:30pm
3/26 – Register – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer.
As a botanist, trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science and as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Blended together, these two lenses of knowledge take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.” – Novelist
Hoopla eBook / Hoopla eAudio / Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / LILINK
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
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9/25 – Register – The theater of war: what Ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today by Bryan Doerries.
Draws on the celebrated director’s work to evaluate the therapeutic potential of the ancient artistic tradition of socially conscious theater, demonstrating how audiences who have suffered from PTSD and other traumas have benefited from its messages and empathetic style.
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
11/20 – Register – Book and dagger: how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II by Elyse Graham.
This untold story of the academics who became OSS spies and invented modern spycraft tells how they were able to change the course of World War II and help defeat the Nazis.
Hoopla eBook / Hoopla eAudio / Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
1/29 – Register – Your Brain on Art. How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.
Breakthrough research, insights from pioneers and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts are essential for improving physical and mental health.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / LILINK
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
