Do you want to expand your taste in readin g? Want to explore new genres? Do you already love a genre but need to rea d the classics? If the answer to any of those questions is yes\, then Rave nous Readers is the book club for you! We meet every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm to discuss a different piece of genre fiction. \;&nbs p\;
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Dates: \; \;
Tuesday 07/15/25 \;The
Princess Bride \;by William Goldman \; \;
A tale of true
love and high adventure\, pirates\, princesses\, giants\, miracles\, fenci
ng\, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts. \;
Tuesday 08/19/25 \;Ender&rsquo\;s Game \;by Orson Scott Card
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A brilliant young boy\, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind
but distant parents\, his sadistic brother Peter\, and the person he loves
more than anyone else\, his sister Valentine. Ender is the Wiggin drafted
to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's ski
lls make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room\, where c
hildren play at mock battles in zero gravity. His psychological battles in
clude loneliness\, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he reme
mbers\, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender
the general Earth needs? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a h
undred years\, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for
almost as long. \;
Tuesday 09/16/25 \;Interview with a Vampire \;by A
nne Rice \;
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic\, sho
cking\, and chillingly sensual\, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and
astonishing force&mdash\;a story of danger and flight\, of love and loss\
, of suspense and resolution\, and of the extraordinary power of the sense
s. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. \;
Tue sday 10/21/25 Fairy Tale by Stephen King
\nMaster storyteller Stephe n King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 \;New York Times \;bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war\, and the stakes could not be higher&mdash\;for that \;world or ours. Charl ie Reade looks like a regular high school kid\, great at baseball and foot ball\, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed i n a horrific accident when he was seven\, and grief drove his dad to drink . Charlie learned how to take care of himself&mdash\;and his dad. When Cha rlie is seventeen\, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master\, Howa rd Bowditch\, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill\, with a l ocked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed . Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then\, when Bowditch dies\, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a s tory no one would believe. What Bowditch knows\, and has kept secret all h is long life\, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. \ ;
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Tuesday 11/18/25 What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
\nA gripping and atmos pheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" f rom Hugo\, Locus\, &\; Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher When A lex Easton\, a retired soldier\, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying\, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers i n the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife\, surrounding a dark\, pulsing l ake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night\, and her b rother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor\, Alex m ust unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.< /p>\n
Tuesda y 12/16/25 In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
\nNew York Times
\;bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculia
r forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare
parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of tre
es\, live three robots&mdash\;fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson\,
a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine\, and a small vacuum desperate for lov
e and attention. Victor Lawson\, a human\, lives there too. They're a fami
ly\, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar andro
id labeled "HAP\," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio&nda
sh\;a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots f
rom Gio's former life to their whereabouts\, the family is no longer hidde
n and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the Ci
ty of Electric Dreams. So together\, the rest of Vic's assembled family mu
st journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio fr
om decommission\, or worse\, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio\, am
id conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap\, Vic must decide
for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached? Inspired by Carlo
Collodi's \;The Adventures of Pinocchio\, and like \;Swiss Family
Robinson \;meets \;Wall-E\, \;In the Lives of Puppets \;is
a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who bro
ught you \;The House in the Cerulean Sea \;and \;Under the Whi
spering Door.
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