Book: Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson Date: Friday, May 29th, 7pm Summary: Catching a killer is dangerous – especially if he lives next door. From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of…
Book: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Date: Friday, April 24th, 7pm Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in…
Book: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Date: Friday, March 27th, 7pm Summary: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is…
Book: The Overstory by Richard Powers Date: Friday, February 27th, 7pm Summary: The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back…
Book: Mindset by Dr. Carol Dweck Date: Friday, January 31st, 7pm Summary: After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost…
Book: Where the Crawdads Sing Date: Friday, November 22nd, 7pm Summary: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh…
Book: The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell Date: Friday, October 25th, 7pm Summary: Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea’s charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with…
Book: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Date: Friday, September 27th The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes—now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor—by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it…
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…
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…