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Book Club Schedule 2020-2021 Date Book Author Leader September 22 The Newcomers Helen Thorpe Ellen Sherman October 27 The Giver of Stars Jojo Mayes Sue Reese November 24 The Widows of Malabar Hill Sujeta Massey Joan Friedman December 22 A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Esther Abramowitz January 26 Apeirogon Colum McCann Marilou Lieman February […]
France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler’s Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the Third Reich, fear and uncertainty […]
Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of […]
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When […]
Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2020 Number one New York Times best seller Oprah’s Book Club Pick NAACP Image Award Winner An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former first lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and […]
“Painfully beautiful.”–The New York Times Book Review “Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver.”–Bustle For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya […]
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor’s Account–a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines […]
“Moving… A constant pleasure to read… Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book… Orlean, a longtime New York writer, has been captivating us with human stories for decades, and her latest book is a wide-ranging, deeply personal, and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity’s bulwark against oblivion: the library… As a narrator, Orlean […]
Book Club Schedule 2019-2020 Month Book Author Date Leader Host October The Tennis Partner Abraham Verghese Th-10-17-11 am Nina Nina Tu-10-22-7:15 pm Nina Phyllis November The Library Book Susan Orlean Th-11-21-7:15 pm Sharon Joan with guest December The Other Americans Laila Lalami Tu-12-17-7:15 pm Ellen S Fran January Where the Crawdads Sing […]
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone. When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the […]
