Book: Educated by Tara Westover When: Friday, July 27th, 7pm Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer…
Book: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi When: Friday, June 29th, 7pm Summary: Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will…
Book: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn When: Friday, May 24, 7pm Summary: In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are…
Book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline When: Friday, April 27, 7pm Summary: In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden…
Book: America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie When: March 30th, 7pm Summary: In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph–a…
Book: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok When: Friday, February 23rd, 7pm Summary: Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the…
Book: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman When: Friday, January 26th, 7pm Summary: Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have…
Book: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden When: Friday, November 17, 7pm Summary: Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when,…
Book: Stardust by Neil Gaiman When: Friday, October 27th, 7pm Summary: Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he’ll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she’ll marry him if…
Book: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls When: Friday, September 29th, 7pm Summary: The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics,…