Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion

Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion

The group discusses two audiobooks each month (with a special third book for September). Listen to all, one, or even none… everyone is welcome!

Meet in person or join in remotely.

To join remotely by phone, please Call: 267-807-9601 and use Access Code: 965803, or join virtually by visiting bit.ly/TCLbtbcall

Titles are voted on 3 months in advance. This month’s titles:

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
DB102888
8 hours, 21 minutes. Suspense Fiction. Fern Castle lives a very structured life because disrupting her from it can be dangerous. When Fern finds out her twin sister Rose can’t get pregnant, she sees a way to repay Rose for everything Rose has done for her. Fern’s mission stirs up dark secrets. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
DB16593
7 hours, 47 minutes. Mystery and Detective Stories. In searching for the murderer of his partner, Sam Spade runs afoul of the police and several characters all in search of a mysterious statuette. 1929.

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
DB117253
8 hours, 23 minutes. Biography, U.S. History, Business and Economics. “The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family’s story. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America—offering a window onto the making of America itself.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2023.

New attendees: Please call the library or click on the covers above to place copies on hold. Or current BTB members can use the Talking Book Order Form to have copies sent on cartridge.