Hayden Island Reads

Hayden Island Reads Community Book Club

Put your book down! Come and join us for this important meeting! See you there!
02/27/2026

Put your book down!
Come and join us for this important meeting!
See you there!

02/21/2026

This is so true .... Just ordered my books for April, May, and June book club! Weeee!! (TBR = To be read!)

Are you reading The Baku inheritance by Anne M Kennedy? Intriguing, suspenseful, exotic!Key elements of the story inclu...
02/21/2026

Are you reading The Baku inheritance by Anne M Kennedy? Intriguing, suspenseful, exotic!

Key elements of the story include:
Setting: The bustling, dangerous oil-rich city of Baku in 1890.
Plot: Anton investigates his father's bankruptcy and fights for survival against hidden enemies.
Characters: Anton Sabroski (bankrupt oil baron) and Klara Darkova (a secretive, enigmatic runaway).
Theme: A tale of "betrayal and loss, love and revenge, daring and triumph".

Join the discussion Wednesday, February 25, 630pm to 800pm at Oxford Suites. See you there!

Who's reading The Widow by John Grisham?I am into Chapter 31 and the story is heating up! Fun development - when I order...
01/21/2026

Who's reading The Widow by John Grisham?

I am into Chapter 31 and the story is heating up! Fun development - when I ordered the book on Thriftbooks I got a large print edition! Not complaining!

Community Book Discussion Wednesday, January 28 at 630pm at Oxford Suites Bistro. Join us!

THE WIDOW by John GrishamBook OverviewCommunity Book DiscussionJanuary 28, 2026 #1 New York Times bestselling author Joh...
01/12/2026

THE WIDOW by John Grisham
Book Overview
Community Book Discussion
January 28, 2026

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he's back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

"A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. The Widow is John Grisham at his irresistible, unforgettable best."--Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.

Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder.

Simon knows he's innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer....

HAPPY NEW YEAR fromHayden Island Reads!!Your island-wide Community Book Club! We are starting our third year of reading ...
01/07/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR from
Hayden Island Reads!!
Your island-wide Community Book Club! We are starting our third year of reading and we WANT you to join us! We meet every.month (last Wednesday of the month) at Oxford Suites Portland at 630pm for fun discussions, Q & A, and general book news! Everyone is welcome to come! Here is what we have on the agenda for 2026.

Our first.book of the year is John Grisham's latest The Widow. Grab and copy and join us for discussion Wednesday, January 28 at 630pm to 800pm in the Bistro. No host food and beverage is available. No purchase lis necessary!

December BookThe Crazyladies Of Pearl StreetBy TrevanianLegendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal nove...
09/15/2025

December Book
The Crazyladies Of Pearl Street
By Trevanian

Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned--again--by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. Pearl Street is also home to a variety of "crazyladies" Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Luc's imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband's grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Luc's own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum, and his mother's impossible expectations are both his driving force and his burden. As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin. It's a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one child's life in the 1930s and '40s, a story that will be remembered long after the last page is turned. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Book Discussion Monday, December 29 630pm to 800pm atnOxford Suites Portland - join us!

November BookFahrenheit 451By Ray BradburyBook OverviewNOW AN HBO FILM STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND MICHAEL SHANNON Si...
09/15/2025

November Book
Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury

Book Overview
NOW AN HBO FILM STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND MICHAEL SHANNON Sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystop.

Book Discussion Monday, November 24, 630pm to 800pm at Oxford Suites Portland. Join Us!

October Book The Witches of Scotlandby Steven P AitchisonIt's one thing to read about witches, it's another thing to dis...
09/15/2025

October Book
The Witches of Scotland
by Steven P Aitchison

It's one thing to read about witches, it's another thing to discover you are one.

When entitled Glasgow law student, David Hunter, learns he is from a long line of witches known as Dream Dancers, his life is turned upside down.

Now David has unwittingly exposed himself to a world of powerful witches, clandestine government agencies, and a fight to protect the consciousness of humanity.

He has to battle his inner demons before he can ever hope to become a true witch of Scotland.

If you love witches, magick, and urban fantasy, you'll love the first book in this fast-paced supernatural thriller series.

Book Discussion Wednesday, Oct 22 at.630pm to 800pm at Oxford Suites Portland. Join us!

September Book The Water Knifeby Paolo BacigalupiNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A fresh, genre-bending thriller" (Los Angeles Tim...
09/15/2025

September Book
The Water Knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A fresh, genre-bending thriller" (Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game.

Think Chinatown meets Mad Max. NPR, All Things Considered

In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.

Join the discussion Wednesday, September 24, 630pm to 800pm, Oxford Suites Portland.

We could start one with the Hayden Island Kitty Committee .....
09/12/2025

We could start one with the Hayden Island Kitty Committee .....

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