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Book Club February 2021 – Inheritance, Dani Shapiro Before focusing on memoirs, Shapiro (Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, 2017, etc.) drew from her family life in her fiction. In her latest, she delves into an origin story that puts everything she previously believed and wrote about herself in fresh perspective. The author’s relationship with her mother […]
Book Club January 2021 – Apeirogon, Colum McCann Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon, named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every […]
Book Club December 2020 – A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia’s, wedding – a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the […]
Book Club November 2021 – The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujeta Massey In the current climate of #MeToo, it has become clear that there is a power imbalance between the sexes and that achieving legitimate gender equality is still an uphill battle. And reading a work such as The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey’s […]
Book Club May 2020 – The Giver of Stars, Jojo Mayes Women became horseback librarians in 1930’s Kentucky and faced challenges from the landscape, the weather, and the men around them. Alice thought marrying attractive American Bennett Van Cleve would be her ticket out of her stifling life in England. But when she and Bennett […]
Book Club Schedule 2020-2021 Our Sisterhood Book Club is open to all interested Sisterhood members. During the COVID-19 restrictions we will meet virtually via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Date Book Author Leader September 22 The Newcomers Helen Thorpe Ellen Sherman October 27 The Giver of Stars Jojo Mayes […]
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 […]
