Books & Brews
Join us on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 5:30pm for our Books & Brews book club, held at Labyrinth Press Co. Each month, attendees can socialize and participate in a book discussion led by our librarians!
Labyrinth is located at 12 E 4th Street in Jamestown.
Please note: Attendees can purchase food and drink if desired. The library will not provide food and drink.
Questions? Call us at (716) 484-7135 Ext. 226.
How to Participate
- Check out the month’s book at Prendergast Library or your preferred library. Links to the library catalog and e-editions can be found below. (Or purchase the book at your local bookstore!)
- Read the book.
- Join us at Labyrinth on the 2nd Wednesday of the month to discuss and socialize. You’re welcome to attend even if you didn’t finish the book – just be prepared for spoilers!
More eBook and eAudiobook copies may be available through our partner, The Mid-York Public Library System. To access this collection, select “Add Library” in Libby or “partner libraries” on desktop. Call (716) 484-7135 ext. 226 with any questions.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Pub. 2020)
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
December 11th at 5:30pm - The Immortalists
More eBook and eAudiobook copies may be available through our partner, The Mid-York Public Library System. To access this collection, select “Add Library” in Libby or “partner libraries” on desktop. Call (716) 484-7135 ext. 226 with any questions.
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (pub. 2018)
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.