14 Jun

Author of Amish Crime Thrillers Comes to Book Club in a Bar

On June 21, New York Times Bestselling author Linda Castillo will join the Learned Owl Book Shop’s Book Club in a Bar to talk about her series of thrillers. These gritty police procedurals are set in a fictional Ohio Amish community. The talk kicks off at 7 p.m., upstairs at the Old Whedon Grille (200 N [...]

02 May

Museum book group discusses ‘Priceless’

Join education and library staff May 12 at 6 p.m. for a heated discussion of art crime and theft as the group discusses “Priceless: How I went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures” by Robert K. Wittman, founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Wittman pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for [...]

08 Dec

New book club for nature lovers!

In the New Year, Naturalist Sarah Matheny will lead discussions of the first two selections — “Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods” by Julie Zickefoose and “Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl” by Stacey O’Brien. Readers can purchase the titles from the gift shop [...]