August 2019: Inheritance
Book: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro Date: Friday, August 30th, 7pm Summary: What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA…
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July 2019: Nimona
Book: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Date: Friday, July 26th, 7pm Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous…
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June 2019: When All is Said
Book: When All is Said by Anne Griffin Date: Friday, June 28th, 7pm Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn…
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Book: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman Date: Friday, May 31st, 7pm Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in…
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April 2019: Dark Matter
Book: Dark Matter by Blake CrouchDate: Friday, April 26, 7pm Summary: “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never…