April 2018: Ready Player One
Book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline When: Friday, April 27, 7pm Summary: In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden…
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March 2018: America’s First Daughter
Book: America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie When: March 30th, 7pm Summary: In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph–a…
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February 2018: My Name is Asher Lev
Book: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok When: Friday, February 23rd, 7pm Summary: Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the…
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January 2018: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Book: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman When: Friday, January 26th, 7pm Summary: Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have…
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November 2017: Memoirs of a Geisha
Book: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden When: Friday, November 17, 7pm Summary: Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when,…