Carnegie's Book Club | Project Hail Mary

We’re heading back to our old stomping grounds for an offsite book club at Carnegie’s Restaurant in Greenfield! We’ll meet upstairs in the private Empire Room at Carnegie’s (100 W Main St., Greenfield). Registration is required.

This book club meets on the last Tuesday of every month and features popular titles selected by a rotating cast of HCPL librarians. HCPLibrary will provide bread & butter for each guest and a crudité platter to share; participants are welcome to purchase additional items from the Carnegie's menu.

On April 28, Kyle Turpin will lead a discussion of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Participants are encouraged to read the book in advance. Ask for a copy at the library’s Information Desk, listen to the audiobook on Hoopla, or check out the eBook on Libby.

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.

May's book will be Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, with a discussion led by Librarian Nicole Scurlock.