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National Jewish Book Award Winner! The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end […]
A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb […]
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as […]
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR’s 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR’s Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2016: 100 […]
January 17 – 11 a.m. January 22 – 7 p.m. For both meetings host: Zorica Sorkin, leader: Linda Herman After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she’d longed for is much changed. Her father’s new companion—a strange, intolerant woman—has taken […]
Th., Nov. 13, 7 p.m. Host and Leader: Ellen Sherman Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour―a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust―must find a balance between his strong obligations […]
Date & Time Host Leader Tu., Nov. 13, 7 p.m. Carrie Cahill-Asher Carrie Cahill-Asher Th., Nov. 15 11 a.m. Claire Rose Kennedy Claire Rose Kennedy A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER […]
Date & Time Host Leader Th., Oct. 18, 11 a.m. Ruthann Grossman Ruthann Grossman Tu., Oct., 23 Sharon Gross Fran Brown #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Book Club […]
Month Book Date Host Leader October Tara Westover, “Educated” Thursday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m. Ruthann Grossman Ruthann Grossman Tuesday, Oct. 23 Sharon Gross Fran Brown November Andrew Sean Greer, “Less” Tu.,Nov.13 Carrie Cahill-Asher Carrie Cahill-Asher Th., Nov. 15 Claire Rose Kennedy Claire Rose Kennedy December Mark Helprin, “Paris in the Present Tense” Th., Dec. […]
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Forty years ago this month, after a long, deadly release of flatulence from American politicians, the United States evacuated its personnel from Saigon in an operation appropriately code-named Frequent Wind. Whether you were alive then or not, the images of those panicked Vietnamese crushing the U.S. Embassy are tattooed […]
