Join us for the next English Book Club:

• When: Thursday, January 8th, 2026 at 6 P.M.
• Where: Rosewood Library, 5655 Jillson St
• Book: Everyone on this Train is a Suspect
• Author: Benjamin Stevenson

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.

The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty:

the debut writer (me!)

the forensic science writer

the blockbuster writer

the legal thriller writer

the literary writer

the psychological suspense writer

But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.

Of course, we should also know how to commit one.

Listen to the Audiobook on Hoopla: Everyone on this Train is a Suspect

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Le invita a la reunión:

• ¿Cuándo? el miércoles, 28 de enero a las 6pm
• ¿Dónde? Senior Center, 2555 Commerce Way, Commerce, CA 90000
• Libro: El Libro de Las Puertas
• Autor: Gareth Brown

Imagina un libro que te permite viajar en el espacio y el tiempo, y que a cada paso revela nuevos secretos y peligros. Imagina que acaba en las manos equivocadas.

¿Te atreves a leerlo?

Cassie ve la vida pasar desde la librería de Nueva York donde trabaja, hasta que un cliente ya anciano le regala un libro misterioso poco antes de morir. Contiene un enigmático mensaje escrito a mano: «Este es el Libro de las puertas. Si lo sostienes en la mano, una puerta será todas las puertas».

No tardará en descubrir que otorga el poder especial de viajar en el espacio y el tiempo, y que hay otros libros mágicos que también pueden hacer cosas maravillosas… o terroríficas.

De repente, Cassie y su mejor amiga, Izzy, se enfrentan a la violencia y al peligro. La única persona que puede ayudarlas es Drummond Fox, un hombre que custodia una biblioteca secreta de libros mágicos y que huye de sus propios demonios.

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Join us for the next Non-Fiction Book Club!

• When: Monday, January 26, 6:00 PM
• Where? Rosewood Neighborhood Library, 5655 Jillson St
• Book: Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
• Author: Jamil Zaki

In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties all think human virtue is evaporating. Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, it is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that people fail to realize how kind, generous, and open-minded others really are. Cynical thinking deepens social problems: when we expect the worst in people, we often bring it out of them.

We don’t have to remain stuck in this cynicism trap. Through science and storytelling, Jamil Zaki imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful skepticism—thinking critically about people and our problems, while honoring and encouraging our strengths. Far from being naïve, hopeful skepticism is a precise way of understanding others that can rebalance our view of human nature and help us build the world we truly want.