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…
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…
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…
March 2019: Girls Burn Brighter
Book: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha RaoDate: March 29, 7pm Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are ambitious, and they are girls. After her mother’s death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her…
February 2019: Moon Tiger
Book: Moon Tiger by Penelope LivelyDate: Friday, February 22, 2019; 7pm The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger…
January 2019: The Great Alone
Book: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah When: Friday, January 25th, 2019 Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live…
November 2018: We Are Called to Rise
Book: We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride When: Friday, November 30 Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After escaping a tumultuous childhood and raising a son, she now…
October 2018: Coraline
Book: Coraline by Neil Gaiman When: Friday, October 26, 7pm Summary: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They…
September 2018: The Gift of Fear
Book: The Gift of Fear by Gavin Becker When: Friday, September 28th, 7pm A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers to help carry a woman’s groceries. Is he a good Samaritan or is he after something else? A fired employee says “You’ll be sorry.” Will he return with a…
August 2018: And After the Fire
Book: And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer When: Friday, August 31, 7pm In Berlin, Germany, in 1783, amid the city’s glittering salons where aristocrats and commoners, Christians and Jews, mingle freely, Sara Itzig Levy, a renowned musician, conceals the score of an anti-Jewish masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach, an…