Mystery Takes Flight this October! |
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Embark on a shared journey of conversation and discovery with Trumbull County Reads, our annual countywide reading initiative. An engaging series of special events, book discussions, expert speakers, and more activities centered around the featured books and their themes of history, mystery, and aviation are planned throughout the fall! Trumbull County Reads is a collaboration of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, Newton Falls Public Library, McKinley Memorial Library, Kinsman Free Public Library, Hubbard Public Library, Girard Free Library, and Bristol Public Library. |
Trumbull County Reads 2026 Featured Book
To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower has been selected as the Trumbull County Reads 2026 featured book.
Set in 1903, To Slip the Bonds of Earth is an Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright brothers’ real-life sister. While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in this historical mystery.
📖 CATALOG >>> To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower
Available to borrow in print, large type, and as a downloadable audiobook or ebook,
SUMMARY:
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright’s flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic 57-second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at 29, she’s frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing…Returning home to Dayton, Wilbur and Orville accept an invitation to a friend’s party. Nervous about leaving their as-yet-unpatented flyer plans unattended, Wilbur decides to bring them to the festivities…where they are stolen right out from under his nose. As always, it’s Katharine’s job to problem solve–and in this case, crime-solve. As she sets out to uncover the thief among their circle of friends, Katharine soon gets more than she bargained for: She finds her number one suspect dead with a letter opener lodged in his chest. It seems the patent is the least of her brothers’ worries. They have a far more earthbound concern–prison. Now Katharine will have to keep her feet on the ground and put all her skills to work to make sure Wilbur and Orville are free to fly another day.
About Author Amanda Flower
Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and three-time Agatha Award-winning author of over 50 mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she has been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World.
Her first Emily Dickinson Mystery, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, was an Agatha Award winner and Mary Higgins Clark Nominee. Her first mystery featuring the Wright Brothers, To Slip the Bonds of Earth, was an Agatha Award and Ohio Book Award winner.
A former librarian, Flower and her husband own a farm and recording studio, and they live in Northeast Ohio with their adorable cats.
More Titles by Amanda Flower
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| Not They Who Soar (Katharine Wright Mystery series 2) |
Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Emily Dickinson Mystery series 1) |
Assaulted Caramel (Amish Candy Shop series 1) |
Trumbull County Reads 2026 Companion Nonfiction Selection
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough is a companion nonfiction selection for Trumbull County Reads 2026. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller from McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. 📖 CATALOG >>> The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Available to borrow in print, large type, and as a book on CD. SUMMARY: On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun- with the first heavier-than-air powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? McCullough tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. |
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Trumbull County Reads Events
COMING SOON! Pick up a free paper copy of the Trumbull County Reads 2026 Event Guide at any library in Trumbull County!
Look for Trumbull County Reads 2026 activities for all ages listed in the library calendar.
History, Mystery, and Inspiration with Author Amanda Flower
Tues., Oct. 20 at 6 PM at Warren Library
Bestselling author Amanda Flower will be speaking live and in person at 6 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 20, at the Warren Library (registration is required). Her presentation will also be livestreamed to the Cortland Library and the Liberty Library.
Flower is an award-winning author of over 50 mystery novels, including the Trumbull County Reads 2026 featured book, To Slip the Bonds of Earth.
Members of Library Friends’ groups from libraries throughout Trumbull County are invited to the Warren Library for a brief welcome reception with Flower at 4:30 PM prior to the author’s presentation. Membership to the Warren Library Friends group will be available for purchase at the door.
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