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.…
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:00 pm The Art Forger By B.A. Shapiro Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees…
Tuesday April 16, 2013 7:00 pm A Good American by Alex George A Good American tells of Jette’s dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut and soul food; the loves and losses of her children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious voices of James and his brothers, sometimes raised in discord…sometimes in perfect…
Tuesday February 15, 2013 7:00 pm People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March, the journey of a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur. This…
Tuesday January 15, 2013 7:00 pm In this debut novel by gifted storyteller Karen Thompson Walker, the world is ending not with a bang so much as a long, drawn-out whimper. The Earth’s rotation slows, gradually stretching out days and nights and subtly affecting the planet’s gravity. The looming apocalypse parallels…
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci Tuesday December 18, 2012 Special Christmas Meeting at Bella’s Italian Grille 1081 West Bank Road (Dutch Treat for dinner) 6:30 pm In a departure from his usual thrillers, bestselling author David Baldacci brings us this sweet holiday tale full of humor, romance, mystery, and…
Tuesday November 20, 2012 7:00 pm An old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers. Beginning in the Italian Alps, the story travels by various routes to New York’s Little Italy, a Hoboken factory, backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota’s Iron Range and the trenches of France. Trigiani is a master…
Tuesday October 16, 2012 7:00 pm Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 non-fiction book presented in the style of a novel. Set in Chicago circa 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World’s Fair, and Dr. H.…
