Tuesday August 21, 2012 7:00pm Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight year old who has all but given up on love and happiness- until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become…
Tuesday July 17, 2012 7:00 Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson might be returning to her rural North Carolina home to escape her failed marriage, but what awaits her is anything but a smooth, quiet healing period. Instead, Willa tosses herself into a 75-year-old murder mystery and a developing relationship with a local…
Tuesday June 19, 2012 7:00 pm The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, A Love Story Popular blogger and cookbook author, Ree Drummond, shares the story of her courtship and marriage to her husband, whom she refers to as “Marlboro Man”. Though Drummond grew up in Oklahoma, she never…
Tuesday, May 15 7:00 Jude Farraday has always put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach—are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child, quickly becomes…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:00 pm The bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeion suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. LaPlante’s debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be…
Tuesday March 20, 2012 7:00 pm Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same in the same hospital, take turns narrating the struggles…
Tuesday, February 21 7:00 pm The story of how seven extraordinary members of a tiny prairie community – two dedicated teachers, two young boys wise beyond their years, a pair of wonderfully idiosyncratic rancher brothers and a pregnant high school girl – come together, in the face of great difficulties,…
January 17th @ 7:00 pm Johnny Merrimon, 13, had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later,…
Tuesday December 20, 2011 6:00 pm Special Holiday Meeting at Java Nation 101 S Main, Celina Join us for dinner or coffee and dessert-Dutch Treat Conversation Starters 1. In the title essay, Ephron writes, “ . . . I have been forgetting things for years, but now I forget in…
Tuesday, November 15 7:00 pm By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family–a family that has been separated for 6 years. That’s where 22 Britannia Road,…