Tuesday April 15, 2014 7:00 pm National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale…
Tuesday March18, 2014 7:00 pm “In this heart-wrenching historical fiction, prolific author Chamberlain focuses on a time in North Carolina’s history that most people would rather forget. It’s 1960, and Jane is a 21-year-old newlywed who’s just accepted a job as a social worker, though her husband, Robert, would rather…
Tuesday February 18, 2014 7:00 pm Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her aviator husband, Charles, attracted attention on an order comparable to Princess Diana. The golden couple couldn’t go out in public without being mobbed. The kidnapping and murder of their first child was called “The Crime of the Century” and…
Tuesday January 21, 2014 7:00pm (No December Meeting) Christmas Party December 16 Call for Details Still devastated by grief five years after the death of her husband and teenage daughter in a car accident, Julia hopes to find solitude and solace while house-sitting at her aunt and uncle’s California estate.…
Tuesday November 19, 2013 7:00 pm During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same…
Tuesday October 15, 2013 7:00 pm It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases:…
Tuesday September 17, 2013 7:00 pm When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons’ parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents’ arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening…
Tuesday August 20, 2013 7:00 pm In this historical fiction gem, Fowler explores the highs and the lows of the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. While many accounts of the Fitzgerald’s marriage sympathize with her charming, famous, booze-loving husband— the more famous of the two — this book is…
Tuesday July 16, 2013 7:00 pm In this sweeping historical love story the little known Armenian genocide of 1915-16 is the focus. Elizabeth Endicott, a recent Mount Holyoke graduate, accompanies her Bostonian banker father on his philanthropic mission to Aleppo, Syria, to aid Armenian refugees fleeing atrocities committed by the…
Tuesday June 18, 2013 7:00 pm Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.…
