Jane Austen Book Club By Karen Joy Fowler THURSDAY August 2, 2018 7:00 In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her…
The Stranger in the Woods By Michael Finkel Tuesday July 17, 2018 7:00pm Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this…
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell Queen of the Desert (Film) Thursday, July 5, 2017 7:00 PM A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip…
The Stolen Marriage By Diane Chamberlain Tuesday June 19, 2018 7:00pm One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello’s life is changed forever. In this novel set in Hickory, North Carolina circa 1944, Tess has just ended her engagement to the love of her life when she is forced…
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The Dinner by Herman Koch Thursday, June 7 , 2017 7:00 PM An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are…
White Houses by Amy Bloom Tuesday, May 15, 2018 7:00 PM Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she’s…
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Thursday, May 3 , 2017 7:00 PM The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates…
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:00 PM A debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the…
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Thursday, April 5, 2017 7:00 PM A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the…
