Tuesday October 19, 2021 6:30 pm The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin Zoom or In-Person Meeting The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to…
Tuesday September 21, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious…
Tuesday August 17, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land,…
Tuesday July 20, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM or in-person MEETING It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study…
Tuesday June 15, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM and in-person MEETING Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items…
Tuesday May 18, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM and in-person MEETING The Other Mrs. is the twisty psychological thriller from Mary Kubica, which is being developed for the screen by Netflix. Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor…
Tuesday April 20, 2021 6:30 pm Combination ZOOM or in-person MEETING American Dirt is a 2020 novel by American author Jeanine Cummins, about the ordeal of a Mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the United States with her son. Oprah…
Tuesday March 16, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM MEETING No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox, as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the…
Tuesday February 16, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM MEETING From bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not…
Tuesday January 19, 2021 6:30 pm ZOOM MEETING Bestselling author Lisa Wingate (Before We Were Yours) brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. This…