Book Club

Discussion Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019.
"Witty and irreverent, funny and sad, this is a charming tribute to stories on the page and in our lives--and the powers they can hold over us."

Discussion Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three "colored girls," three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the oldest, a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college, living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams; Cypress, the dancer,who leaves home to find new ways of moving and easing the contractions of her soul; Indigo, the youngest, still a child of Charleston--"too much of the south in her"--wholives in poetry, can talk to her dolls, and has a great gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019.
A compelling autobiographical testament to Dorothy Day's life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019.
The National Book Award-winning novel that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor (1950-2016). In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creative a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects - a common prison and a shared home.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). Carnegie Medal Longlist 2018, American Library Association Notable Books 2018, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, A New York Times Notable Book of 2017, A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017, A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2018.
Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed,The Wall Street Journal,Star Tribune, Fast Company,The Village Voice, Toronto Star,Fortune Magazine,In Style, and O: The Oprah Magazine. An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone's favorite Chinese restaurant.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and transporting illustrations, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination as they explore the inspiring early life of the poet who became Pablo Neruda. Pura Belpré Award Winner.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018.
Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018.
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017; Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2017; Booklist Editors' Choice 2018; Carnegie Medal Longlist 2018; YBP Core Collection Titles 2017; Fiction Core Collection.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. YBP Core Collection 2017.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2018.
Through the lives of two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila. New York Times Bestseller List and The New Zealand Best Seller List 2015.