Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break is not your typical book club. Instead of requiring everyone to read the same book, we gather for good conversation about different books, authors, and genres.
Each month we read books on a theme, and discussions take us all over the literary map. If you enjoy reading, this is the book club for you. We discuss books in a casual setting over coffee and refreshments, and most of us leave with a new book or two on our “to-read” list.
If you enjoy good conversations about books in a fun atmosphere, this is the group for you!
Join us for Senior Book Break the second Tuesday of every month at 10:30 am. Coffee and refreshments provided. Grover Beach Community Library, 240 N. Ninth St. Grover Beach
A Book About a Culture Other Than Your Own
Senior Book Break — A Book About a Culture Other Than Your Own A Hidden History of Savannah by Breana and T.C.Michaels This book reveals some of Savannah’s exciting history of pirates and Native Americans and the city planning that preserved the rich culture of this...
A Book for Relaxation and Enjoyment
Senior Book Break — A Book for Relaxation and Enjoyment The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle A reporter, wanting to impress his girlfriend, decides to interview a famous anthropologist, who is notorious for not giving interviews. A rival anthropologist challenges his...
Another Country
Senior Book Break Topic: Another County The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman England: The Thursday Murder Club at a Retirement home. Our rocking chair detectives tackle another one. Elizabeth, one of the members, meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, but...
A Mystery
October 2025 Senior Book Break Subject: A Mystery The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman A quirky cast of characters, who are residents of a posh British retirement village, who get together and solve mysteries. When a murder happens right in their residence they...
Books That Take Place in Another Country
September Senior Book Break Subject : Books that take place in another country Erte & New Erte In Full Color by Charles Spencer Erte was an artist, born in Russia in 1892, who moved to Paris. Not a lot is known about his personal life, but he belonged to the art...
A Good Book You Want to Share
A Good Book You Want to Share Something In the Shadows - Mary Mead This story revolves around twin boys in a family of odd circumstances. One of the sons enlists in the military. The other son dies at home. The deceased son begins to haunt the house. Whenever anyone...
Ghosts August 2025
The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman When an elder on the Navaho reservation witnesses a shootout, one of the gunmen dies in his hogan. According to the Navajo way his chindi (ghost) is trapped within the hogan, and earth covered structure. The hogan is sealed and a wall...
Westerns
Rails Across the Ranchos by Loren Nicholson An Interesting history of the development of San Luis Obispo County. Visionaries, developers and businessmen saw the potential in this Central Coast area. They encouraged the Southern Pacific Railroad to lay tracks from the...
The Library’s Non-Fiction Room
Dewey – A Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Non Fiction #590) On Jan. 18, 1988, with a temperature of -15 a Spenser, Iowa librarian went to get books from the book drop. They heard a noise and found a shaking gray mass of mud...
Food
Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...