Tuesday March 17, 2015 7:00 From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Inspired by the true story of early-nineteenth-century abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimké, Kidd paints a moving portrait of two women inextricably linked by the horrors of slavery. Join the…
Tuesday February 17, 2015 7:00 pm “In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “On one level, Mr. Mercedes is an expertly crafted example of the classic race-against-the-clock thriller. On…
Tuesday January 20, 2015 7:00 pm Kelly Corrigan’s heartfelt homage to motherhood is every bit as tough and funny as it is nostalgic and searching. It’s a tale about growing up, gaining wisdom, and reconciling with Mom (something we all must do eventually), but it’s also an honest meditation…
MEETING POSTPONED UNTIL 11/25 DUE TO WEATHERTuesday November 18, 2014 7:00 pm Cecilia is leading the perfect suburban life. She’s the envy of other school mothers, and she managed to marry one of the handsome Fitzpatrick boys. While her husband is away on a business trip, Cecilia accidentally finds…
Tuesday October 21, 2014 7:00 pm A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner of Island Books, has recently endured some tough years: his wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and his prized possession–a rare edition of Poe poems–has been stolen. Over time, he…
Tuesday September 16, 2014 7:00 pm Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one. What is the boundary between human and animal beings and what happens when that boundary is blurred are…
Tuesday August 19, 2014 7:00 pm Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who’s particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone’s favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses—and…
Tuesday July 15, 2014 7:00 pm From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a…
Tuesday June 17, 2014 7:00 pm An Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 Selection, this wonderful debut novel is set in 1923, against the backdrop of the Great Migration. 15 year old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead…
Tuesday May 20, 2014 7:00 pm Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the…
