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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Discussion Leader: Yara Wilson
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson · Stevenson, Bryan
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL... |
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Discussion Leader: Diane Marsh
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Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 2nd Printing edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought attention to the labor movement in America, is part of the curriculum... |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Discussion Leader: Tereisa Bigo
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Discussion Leader: Erlend Warnick
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Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel
Ivan Doig · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Review
The final novel from a great American storyteller.
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved... |
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Discussion Leader: Brooke Dodds
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Housekeeping: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson · Picador
Pages: 219
Format: Print book
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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small... |
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Discussion Leader: Misty Galbraith
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Circe
Madeline Miller · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The... |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Discussion Leader: Etta McQuade
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Catherine, Called Birdy
Karen Cushman
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Catherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman of good family, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year - the year 1290. A Newbery Honor Book. |
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Discussion Leader: Eloise Fugal
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson · Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Pages: 199
Format: Book
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful... |
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