Adults

This month we will be reading A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell.  

Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity.

A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.

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This month we will be reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. 

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a quirky, big-hearted novel. Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure. 

This book is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.

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This month we will be reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. 

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a quirky, big-hearted novel. Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure. 

This book is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.

This month we will be reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley.

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. 

This month we will be reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley. 

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. 

This month we are reading The Book Woman of Troubelseome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.  This meeting will take place on Zoom. 

The bestselling historical fiction from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of Lee Smith and Lisa Wingate.  

This month we will be reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. 

The bestselling historical fiction from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of Lee Smith and Lisa Wingate.  

This month we are reading Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. This meeting will take place on Zoom. 

Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child. 

A poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, that will resonate with mothers and daughters. 

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This month we are reading Warlight by Michael Ondaatje.  This meeting will take place on Zoom.  

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

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This month we are reading Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. 

In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel.