Thursday, January 6, 7:00 pm Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt This story is a fantasy about a family named Tuck who accidentally stumble upon a spring in a wood, which has the ability to give eternal life. They don’t realize at first what they have drunk until they realize that…
Tuesday, January 18th, 7:00 pm The Corrections is a 2001 novel of social criticism by American author Jonathan Franzen. The satirical family drama drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book revolves around the troubles…
Thursday, December 2, 7:00 pm The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian who is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to…
Tuesday, November 16th, 7:00 pm Drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, the unforgettable characters of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship. Through the chorus of voices they have created, Mary Ann Shaffer and…
Thursday, November 4, 7:00 pm Mansfield Park by Jane Austen In this novel, said to be Austen’s favorite, the idyllic Bertram family estate becomes home to a poor young relative, Fanny. In Mansfield Park’s wealthy world of social accomplishments and flirtations, the sensible Fanny finds herself out of place, yet…
Tuesday, October 19th, 7:00 pm Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the…
Thursday, October 7, 7:00 pm Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit is the nonfiction story of a thoroughbred racehorse who became an unlikely champion and symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression. The 2003 film adaptation stars Tobey Macguire and Jeff Bridges.
Thursday, September 2, 7:00 pm The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Reader is a provocative, morally challenging, and deeply moving novel about a young boy’s erotic awakening in a clandestine love affair with a mysterious older woman. Falling ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued…
Thursday, August 5, 2010 The Soloist by Steve Lopez The true story of journalist Steve Lopez’s discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took…
Thursday, June 3, 7:00 pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding This is the sequel to Bridget Jones’ Diary which we discussed several years ago. This laugh-out-loud comedy (quite a change from the somber books of the last couple of months), should prove to be an amusing…