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Central Book Club In-Person
Central Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm.
For a list of all our books for the year, visit this page.
For the virtual/online branch-off of this book club, which meets the third Tuesday of every other month, visit our separate registration page.
This month we are reading All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle. The book is available to check out from the library here.
Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone.
He just needs to realise it.
In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship and fulfilment.
But Hubert Bird is lying.
The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul.
Until, that is, he receives some good news - good news that in one way turns out to be the worst news ever, news that will force him out again, into a world he has long since turned his back on.
Now Hubert faces a seemingly impossible task: to make his real life resemble his fake life before the truth comes out.
Along the way Hubert stumbles across a second chance at love, renews a cherished friendship and finds himself roped into an audacious community scheme that seeks to end loneliness once and for all . . .
Life is certainly beginning to happen to Hubert Bird. But with the origin of his earlier isolation always lurking in the shadows will he ever get to live the life he's pretended to have for so long?
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- B Room
- Audience:
- Adults Public
- Categories:
- Library Event