Evening Book Club

This month's selection: The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in 
control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the 
professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Books will be available on January 15 at the Circulation Desk.