Thursdays @ 10 am in the Library
Coffee Talk • Thursdays @ 10 am (in library)
May 14: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Carls just appeared.
Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship–like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor–April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube.
The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world–everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires–and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.
Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring from the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye”~ Good Reads Choice Award
2026 List
- January 15: Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- February 19: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- March 19: All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
- April 16: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
- May 14: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- June 11: Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
- July 9: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- August 20: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- September 17: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
- October 15: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- November 19: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- December 10: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
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