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 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 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 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 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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Join us as we discuss The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years […]
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Join us as we discuss The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at […]
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Join both the Tuesday Book Discussion and the Mystery Book Club, as we wrap up the year with Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves […]
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Join us as we discuss The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas […]
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