The Stolen Marriage By Diane Chamberlain Tuesday June 19, 2018 7:00pm One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello’s life is changed forever. In this novel set in Hickory, North Carolina circa 1944, Tess has just ended her engagement to the love of her life when she is forced…
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The Dinner by Herman Koch Thursday, June 7 , 2017 7:00 PM An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are…
White Houses by Amy Bloom Tuesday, May 15, 2018 7:00 PM Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she’s…
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Thursday, May 3 , 2017 7:00 PM The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates…
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:00 PM A debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the…
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Thursday, April 5, 2017 7:00 PM A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the…
The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:00 PM PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO MEETING IN FEBRUARY From the best-selling author of “The Weight of Water” and “The Pilot’s Wife” : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a…
The Circle by Dave Eggers Thursday, March 1, 2017 7:00 PM PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO FEBRUARY MEETING The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company, which starts out as an extremely…
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Thursday, January 4, 2017 7:00 PM Hidden Figures tells the story of African-American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at NASA. For the first years of their careers, the workplace was segregated and women were kept…
