Mystery Readers Meeting, January 21

Mystery Readers Book Group  

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library
(559) 713-2709

For January: Read the book you got at the December meeting, or a mystery that you received over the holidays.

 

Next Meeting
January 21 at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month
In the blue meeting room, upstairs

Monthly Friends Meeting, January 8

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, January 8, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers Meeting, December 17

Mystery Readers Book Group  

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 
(559) 713-2709

For December: No book to read!!

 

Instead, bring a wrapped book (paperback or hardback - may be new or gently used) with no name on it. Some people have added bookmarks or other items; however, gifts shouldn't be very expensive. 

We will play the "Yankee Swap" game with the wrapped books.

Next Meeting
December 17th at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month

In the blue meeting room, upstairs

Monthly Friends Meeting, December 11

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, December 11, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 
Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Monthly Friends Meeting, November 13

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, November 13, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers Meeting, November 19

Mystery Readers Book Group 

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library
(559) 713-2709

For November:
Read a novel by a foreign mystery author

The Remarkables mountain range in Otago, New Zealand (creative common image

by Jocelyn Kinghorn via Flickr)

Andrea Camilleri - Italy        
Charles Cumming - Great Britain        
Shamini Flint - Singapore
Anne Holt - Norwegian         
Peter May - China                                  
M.J. McGrath - Canada (Inuit)
Barbara Nadel - Istanbul       
Jeffrey Siger - Greek
Tamar Myers writes about a detective in the Congo (the author isn't  foreign however)
... and www.stopyourekillingme.com has many more!!!

Next Meeting
November 19th at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month

In the blue meeting room, upstairs

Monthly Friends Meeting, October 9

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, October 9, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers Meeting, October 15

Mystery Readers Book Group 

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 
(559) 713-2709

For October:
Read A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Next Meeting

October 15th at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month

In the blue meeting room, upstairs

Monthly Friends Meeting, September 11

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, September 11, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers Meeting, September 17

 

Mystery Readers Book Club
Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 

(559) 713-2709

For September:

Read an odd job or career mystery

Try http://www.stopyourekillingme.com for book ideas

Next Meeting:  
September 17th at 6:30pm 

Meets every third Wed. of the Month
In the blue meeting room, upstairs 

Monthly Friends Meeting, August 14

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, August 14, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (purple) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers Meeting, August 20

Mystery Readers Book Group 

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 

(559) 713-2709

For August: Read a “hot” mystery (or any other form of hot, such as climate)

Hot Stuff   by Don Burns                                
Cake on a Hot Tin Roof   by Jacklyn Brady       

The Hot Country   by Robert Butler            
Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof    by Blaize Clemen
Roast Mortem   by Cleo Coyle                             
Hot Stuff   by Janet Evanovich

One Hot Mess   by Lois Greiman                              
Liar, Liar   by  K.T. Larson

Hot Rocks   by  Andy Rawls                        
Hot Mahogany  by  Stuart Woods

Next Meeting:  August 20th at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month
In the blue meeting room, upstairs 

Mystery Readers Meeting, July 16

Mystery Readers Book Group 

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 

(559) 713-2709

For the July meeting, 

Read a patriotic mystery.

Flags, holidays, Washington D.C., or some title suggestions:

The Fourth of July Wake  by Harold Adams             
Hair of the Dog  by Laurie Berenson
Someone to Watch over Me  by Jill Churchill        
Dead on the Fourth of July  by R.E. Derouin
Act of Darkness  by Jane Haddam                            
Yankee Doodle Dead  by Carolyn Hart
Exit Wounds   by J.A. Jance                                         
Die Like a Hero  by Clyde Linsley
4^th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro                 
Iron Ties  by Ann Parker
Can’t Never Tell  by Cathy Pickens                             
Star Spangled Murder  by Valerie Wolzien

Next Meeting:  July 16th  at 6:30pm

Meets every third Wed. of the Month
In the blue meeting room, upstairs 

Come and bring a friend!

Mystery Readers' Meeting, June 18

For the June meeting:
Read a mystery having anything to do with a wedding.

Some suggestions

Delivering death : a novel / Julie Kramer.        
Moriarty returns a letter / Michael Robertson.       

Murder of the cat's meow / Denise Swanson.              
Cast on, kill off / Maggie Sefton. 
Gone  girl : a novel / Gillian Flynn. (wedding anniversary)   
That old black magic / Mary Jane Clark.
Peach pies and alibis / Ellery Adams.                         
Bless the bride / Rhys Bowen.
Hunting shadows : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery / Charles Todd.
The Saturday big tent wedding party / Alexander McCall Smith


*The Mystery Readers' Meeting meets every third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 in the blue meeting room upstairs in Visalia. It is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information, call Sheryll at 559.713.2709.

 

Next meeting - June 18 from 6:30 - 8:00pm

Come and bring a friend!

Friends Taking a Brief Hiatus

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will not be meeting in June. Come join us when we resume meeting on Thursday, July 10 at 6:30.

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

May Mystery Readers' Meeting, May 21

The next Mystery Readers' meeting will be held on May 21 from 6:30 - 8:00pm in the Visalia Library's upstairs "blue" meeting room. This month, the choice is a fictional character who drinks. We aren't particular about what they drink.

Some author ideas:

Robert G. Barrett- Les Norton, a nightclub bouncer in Sydney, Australia
 
Laura Childs- Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Teahouse in Charleston, South Carolina, in the Tea Shop Mysteries
 
Meg Chittenden- Charlie Plato, a country-western tavern owner, in San Francisco, California
 
Eoin Colfer- Daniel McEvoy, an Irish bouncer working in a seedy New Jersey bar
 
Ellen Crosby- Lucie Montgomery, operating her family's winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country mysteries
 
Charlie Huston- Henry Thompson, a former high school star baseball player, now a bartender with a drinking problem in Paul's Place, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City
 
Lee Jackson- Sarah Tanner, the proprietor of the Dining and Coffee Rooms and amateur sleuth, in 1850s London, England
 
Karen Kijewski- Kat Colorado, a bar-tending private investigator, in Sacramento, California
 
John Lescroart - Dismas Hardy, ex-cop bartender and ex-Assistant District Attorney turned defense attorney, and Abe Glitsky, a black, Jewish cop, in San Francisco, California
 
Ann Parker - Inez Stannert, a saloon owner, around 1880 in Leadville, Colorado, in the Silver Rush mysteries
 
Michele Scott - Nikki Sands, in the Napa Valley, California, in the Wine Lovers mysteries
 
Robert Skinner - Wesley Farrell, a Creole nightclub owner passing for white, in 1930s New Orleans, Louisiana
  
 
For more information, please call 713-2709.

Monthly Friends Meeting, May 8th

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, May 8th, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs (blue) meeting room. Absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially current Friends, prospective Friends, and anyone who is interested in learning more! 

Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Friends of the Tulare County Library Meeting, April 10th

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, April 10th, at 7:00 PM in the library's upstairs' (blue ) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Mystery Readers' Meeting, April 16

The next Mystery Readers' meeting will be held on April 16 at 6:30pm in the Visalia Library's upstairs "blue" meeting room. This month, we are reading any mystery having to do with national parks or monuments. Please visit stopyourekillingme.com for title ideas.

For more information, please call 713-2709.

Mystery Readers' Meeting, March 19th

The next Mystery Readers' meeting will be held on March 19 at 6:30pm in the Visalia Library's upstairs "blue" meeting room. This month, we are reading any mystery having to do with animals or pets. For more information, please call 713-2709.

The Friends of the Library Literary Baskets are back!

Click on the image below to get more details.

Mystery Readers Book Club Meets March 19th

The next Mystery Readers' Book Club meeting will be held on March 19th in the Visalia Library's upstairs' "blue" meeting room. For more information, please call 713-2709.

Friends of the Tulare County Library Meeting, March 13

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, March 13th, at 7 PM in the library's upstairs' (blue ) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Sheryll at 713-2709 for more information.

Romance Novels For Sale by the Friends of the Library

The Friends of the Library are selling sets of romance novels, at the great price of $1, just in time for Valentine's Day. Each set contains 3 novels bound in colorful ribbon with candies attached. Please look for them on display in front of the circulation desk.

Mystery Readers' Meeting, February 19th

The next Mystery Readers' meeting will be held on February 19 at 6:30pm in the Visalia Library's upstairs "blue" meeting room. This month, we are reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. For more information, please call 713-2709.

Friends of the Library Morning Meeting, February 8th

Friends of the Library Book Sale, February 15