Friday, November 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Adult Collections Room — 300 Main St., Falmouth, MA
Consider this your invitation to read and discuss narrative nonfiction with us! In the Narrative Nonfiction Book Club we will be reading across the genres of nonfiction, from history to adventure, memoir/biography, and beyond with books that read like a novel. Join us on Friday, October 9th at 4pm in the Hermann room as we discuss our latest book pick, The Rush: California Gold, The Civil War, And The Making Of The Modern World by Nathaniel Philbrick. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Main and Adult Services desks one month prior to the meeting. "In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California—triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history and jolting a fragile republic already sliding toward crisis. In The Rush, Nathaniel Philbrick transforms the Gold Rush from a tale of sudden riches into the origin story of America’s modern contradictions: capital consolidated at dizzying speed, democracy in thrall to private power, xenophobia weaponized in the name of liberty—and a stubborn belief in the American experiment that refuses to die. The Rush is alive with characters whose choices still…