Join us as both of our book clubs discuss Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman. Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss Dark August, by Katie Tallo. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother–her last living relative–has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King. Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss Murder Book, by Thomas Perry. When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a […]
Read more →Join us as we discuss Late Migrations, by Margaret Renkl. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, […]
Read more →Join us this June as our Mystery and Tuesday Book Clubs meet to discuss We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the […]
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Join us as we discuss The Other Half, by Charlotte Vassell. Who killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely? All the party-goers have alibis. […]
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Join us as we discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton […]
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Join us as we discuss The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner. It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San […]
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Join us as we discuss Table for Two, by Amor Towles. The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, […]
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