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,…
Tuesday, October 18, 2010 In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life — until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy’s rural…
Tuesday, September 20th, 7:00 pm Every Last One by Anna Quindlen is a novel about facing every last one of the things we fear most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel, to live a life we never dreamed we’d have to live but must…
August 16th, 7:00 pm Brunonia Barry dreamt she saw a prophecy in a piece of lace, a vision so potent she spun it into a novel. The Lace Reader retains the strange magic of a vivid dream, though Barry’s portrayal of modern-day Salem, Massachusetts–with its fascinating cast of eccentrics–is reportedly…
Tuesday, July 19th, 7:00 pm With the subtitle “Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression,” this charming memoir was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 2007 by the New York Times. Kalish lived with her siblings, mother and grandparents both in a…
Tuesday, June 21, 7:00 pm If Washington, D.C. housewife Eliza Benedict sometimes seems preoccupied, it’s easy to imagine why: As a teenager a quarter century ago, she was kidnapped by a serial rapist and murderer. That maniac is now sitting on death row and he is making one last macabre…
Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 pm In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine-and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak- Mary leaves home and travels to…
