Practice your German reading skills and learn some new vocabulary as we read short stories together and discuss. Our stories will be best suited to those in the upper beginner or intermediate level, but all are welcome to join!

This week’s class will be taking place both in person at Laura’s Library and online through Zoom.

Click here to join Reading & Speaking German, a live virtual program happening Wednesdays at 1pm.

If you’re having difficulties, please refer to Zoom’s support information. Westbank Library is unable to provide tech assistance during the program. Please contact questions@westbanklibrary.com if you would like to schedule tech help or if you would like additional information regarding this library program.

This month, Novel Crossroads is being offered simultaneously online and in-person at 10:30am.

Click here to join the program online, or come to Laura’s Library to join us in-person. This meeting will take place in The Commons.

If you’re having difficulties, please refer to Zoom’s support information. Westbank Library is unable to provide tech assistance during the program. Please contact questions@westbanklibrary.com if you would like to schedule tech help or if you would like additional information regarding this library program.

Novel Crossroads was started over 20 years ago by an Eanes ISD school librarian and her parent volunteers. Since then, it has grown to include more people, many of them former parents from Eanes. This group reads a wide array of genres throughout the year and tries to include at least one nonfiction selection. They look forward to welcoming newcomers.

2023 Reading Selections

• January 14^th: The Measure: a novel by Nikki Erlick
• February 11^th: The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza
• March 11^th:  Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak
• April 15^th: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• May 13^th: A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley and Scout of the Oregon Trail by Todd Crickmer
• June 10^th: River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
• July 8^th: A Storm in the Stars: a novel  by Don Zancanella
• August 12^th: Lessons in Chemistry: a novel by Bonnie Garmus
• September 9^th: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: a novel by Jamie Ford
• October 14^th: Hester: a novel by Laurie Lico Albanese
• November 11^th: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Click here to join Mysteries and More online or come to Laura’s and join us in person. Please check the calendar for updates.

If you’re having difficulties, please refer to Zoom’s support information. Westbank Library is unable to provide tech assistance during the program. Please contact questions@westbanklibrary.com if you would like to schedule tech help or if you would like additional information regarding this library program.

Interested in investigating some cryptic crimes with other mystery lovers? Come to the Mysteries and More Book Club every third Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. on Zoom! Led by library staff, you’ll join other amateur agents and bloodhound bookworms to talk suspects, motives, alibis, and cracking the case.

This group is on hiatus in December

2023 Selections:

• January 18^th: The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
• February 15^th: Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
• March 15^th: Death of a Cozy Writer (St. Just Mysteries #1) by GM Malliet
• April 19^th: Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
• May 17^th: The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club series) by Richard Osman
• June 21^st: Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot #13) by Agatha Christie
• July 19^th: Slow Horses (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron
• August 16^th: A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell mystery) by Deanna Raybourn
• September 20^th: Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen
• October 18^th: The Cover Wife by Dan Fesperman
• November 15th: The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves

Please read these ground rules ahead of the conversation:

• Please keep your camera on for the discussion and provide your name.
• Mute if there is background noise.
• Respect the privacy of others by not reporting what you hear in this conversation with any specificity or attribution.
• Be respectful and listen when others are speaking.
• Allow everyone’s voice to be heard that wants to be heard.

This month’s meeting will be held simultaneously in person at Westbank Library and online through Zoom.

Click here to join BookTalk, a live virtual discussion happening Tuesday at 1pm.

If you’re having difficulties, please refer to Zoom’s support information. Westbank Library is unable to provide tech assistance during the program. Please contact questions@westbanklibrary.com if you would like to schedule tech help or if you would like additional information regarding this library program.

Led by library staff, this book club reads and discusses literary fiction (with an occasional non-fiction book thrown in). In addition, each year the group reads a classic and a book by a Texas author. Join the group on the last Tuesday of the month at 11:30 a.m. on Zoom. This group is on hiatus in November and December.

2023 Reading Selections

• January 31^st: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• February 28^th: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• March 28^th: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
• April 25^th: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• May 30^th: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• June 27^th: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
• July 25^th: The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• August 29^th: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• September 26^th: Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
• October 24^th: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

Please read these ground rules ahead of the conversation:

• Please keep your camera on for the discussion and provide your name.
• Mute if there is background noise.
• Respect the privacy of others by not reporting what you hear in this conversation with any specificity or attribution.
• Be respectful and listen when others are speaking.
• Allow everyone’s voice to be heard that wants to be heard.

This month, Women in Print is being offered simultaneously online and in-person.

Click here to join Women in Print, online or come to Laura’s Library to join us in-person.

If you’re having difficulties, please refer to Zoom’s support information. Westbank Library is unable to provide tech assistance during the program. Please contact questions@westbanklibrary.com if you would like to schedule tech help or if you would like additional information regarding this library program.

Led by library staff, this book club reads and discusses books focusing on women’s perspective of the world. Their reading list includes literary fiction, non-fiction, and some classic titles. Join the group on the fourth Saturday of the month at 3 p.m and on the third Saturday of the month in May, November and December.

2023 Reading Selections

• January 28^th: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: a novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• February 25^th: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• March 25^th: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• April 22^nd: Euphoria: a novel by Lily King
• May 20^th: The Measure: a novel by Nikki Erlick
• June 24^th: Lessons in Chemistry: a novel by Bonnie Garmus
• July 22^nd: Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson
• August 26^th: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
• September 23^rd: The Good Wife of Bath: a (mostly) true story by Karen Stormer Brooks
• October 28^th: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: a novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• November 18^th: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• December 16^th: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Please read these ground rules ahead of the conversation:

• Please keep your camera on for the discussion and provide your name.
• Mute if there is background noise.
• Respect the privacy of others by not reporting what you hear in this conversation with any specificity or attribution.
• Be respectful and listen when others are speaking.
• Allow everyone’s voice to be heard that wants to be heard.