Book: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie When: Friday, April 28th, 7pm Summary:  “The murderer is with us–on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead…

Book: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance When: Friday, March 31st, 7pm Summary: Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty…

Book: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi When: Friday, February 24th, 7pm Summary: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was…

Book: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs When: Friday, January 27th, 7pm Summary: An instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated account of a young…

Book: The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth When: Friday, November 18th, 7pm Summary: A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer–America’s first–who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis.…