Book: The Leavers by Lisa Ko Date: Friday, April 30, 7pm Summary: One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is…
Book: That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon Date: Friday, March 26th, 7pm Summary: From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes—America’s public lands. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust…
Book: The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton Date: Friday, February 26th, 7pm Summary: In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed…
Book: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne Date: Friday, January 29th, 7pm, Zoom Summary: Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each…
Book: Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera Date: Friday, November 20th, 7pm Summary: It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s…
Book: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Date: Friday, October 30, 7pm Summary: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and…
Book: Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane Date: Friday, September 25, 2020, 7pm Summary: A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway…
Book: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Date: Friday, August 28, 7pm Summary: Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and…
Book: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes Date: Friday, July 31st, 7pm Summary: Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for…
Book: Blood, Salt, Water by Denise Mina Date: 6/26/2020, 7pm Summary: Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town. For reasons she can’t quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna…