The Handmaid’s Tale By Margaret Atwood Tuesday October 15, 2019 7:00 pm In celebration of the recently released sequel, The Testaments, we are reading this modern day classic. In the dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the…
INHERITANCE By Dani Shapiro Tuesday September 17, 2019 7:00 In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the…
The Glass Ocean By Beatriz Williams Lauren Willig Karen White Tuesday August 20, 2019 7:00 pm The lives and loves of three remarkable women—two in the past, one in the present—and the tragic final voyage of the HMS Lusitania. From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten…
The Dreamers By Karen Thompson Walker Tuesday July 16, 2019 7:00PM One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the…
The Astronaut Wives Club By Lily Koppel Tuesday June 18, 2019 7:00 pm Join us in kicking off our Adult Summer Reading Program “A Universe of Stories” celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. This book tells the story of the women behind the spacemen, from Project…
Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline Tuesday May 21, 2019 7:00 pm Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck or chance. Would…
Carnegie’s Maid By Marie Benedict Tuesday April 16, 2019 7:00PM Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She’s not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh’s grandest households. She’s a poor farmer’s daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her…
The Dream Daughter By Diane Chamberlain TUESDAY March 19, 2019 7:00PM When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done…
The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian Tuesday February 19, 2019 7:00 PM A powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. … Afraid…
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,…
