Tuesday July 17, 2012 7:00 Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson might be returning to her rural North Carolina home to escape her failed marriage, but what awaits her is anything but a smooth, quiet healing period. Instead, Willa tosses herself into a 75-year-old murder mystery and a developing relationship with a local…
Thursday July 5, 2012 7:00 pm One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neal Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. It is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving self-hood through…
Tuesday June 19, 2012 7:00 pm The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, A Love Story Popular blogger and cookbook author, Ree Drummond, shares the story of her courtship and marriage to her husband, whom she refers to as “Marlboro Man”. Though Drummond grew up in Oklahoma, she never…
Thursday, June 7 7:00 pm See’s engrossing novel set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting story of lifelong, intimate friends Lily and Snow Flower, their imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for women and their betrayal by pride and love. The discussion group centers around books that…
Tuesday, May 15 7:00 Jude Farraday has always put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach—are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child, quickly becomes…
Thursday, May 3 7:00 pm In this funny and poignant memoir about a wildly neurotic Labrador retriever named Marley, an unsuspecting young couple come to understand what really matters. Marley had no brakes on his loyalty, exuberance, or passion. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anniston star in the 2008 film adaptation.…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:00 pm The bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeion suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. LaPlante’s debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be…
Thursday, April 5 7:00 pm The memoir of Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA operative who was outed by the Bush Administration in retaliation for an op-ed written by her husband. As a number of sections have been blacked out by the CIA, we suggest you begin your reading with…
Tuesday March 20, 2012 7:00 pm Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same in the same hospital, take turns narrating the struggles…
Thursday, March 1 7:00 pm An orphan girl’s progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane’s first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling…
