Book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Date: Friday, June 17th at 7pm Summary: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name,…
Book: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Date: Friday, May 27th at 7pm Summary: An unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a…
Book: Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Date: Friday, April 29th, 7pm Summary: Abducted from Africa, sold in America. The compelling true story of one of the last survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Barracoon recounts one man’s fight for freedom. Fifty years after the abolition of slavery, Cudjo Lewis was…
Book: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Date: Friday, January 28th, 7pm Summary: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On…
Book: Think Again by Adam Grant Date: Friday, November 19th at 7pm Summary: Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong. Evidence has shown that creative geniuses are not attached to…
Book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Date: Friday, October 30, 7pm France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue,…
Name: The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee Date: Friday, August 27th, 7pm An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child…
Book: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad Date: Friday, June 25, 7pm Summary: A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad…
Book: Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Date: Friday, May 28th, 7pm Summary: The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in…