The Great Alone By Kristin Hannah TUESDAY January 15, 2019 7:00PM Kristin Hannah’s vivid depiction of a struggling family begins as a young father and POW returns from Vietnam, suffering from PTSD. The Allbright family, barely making ends meet in 1974, moves from Seattle to the untamed wilderness of Kaneq,…
IN The MIDST OF WINTER BY ISABEL ALLENDE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2018 7:00PM In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a…
Young Jane Young By Gabrielle Zevin Tuesday October 16, 2018 7:00 pm Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light,…
The Dry By Jane Harper Tuesday September 18, 2018 7:00 pm A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in…
An American Marriage By Tayari Jones Tuesday August 21, 2018 7:00pm Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young business executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the…
The Stranger in the Woods By Michael Finkel Tuesday July 17, 2018 7:00pm Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this…
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…
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…
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 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…
