The May selection for our monthly book club is The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: From the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this funny, heartwarming story about love, life, and human relationships that features a delightfully offbeat cast of characters. Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, t...

The June selection for our monthly book club is Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margo...

Great news! Our book club was selected by BookClubz to have a discussion with author Tim Brady on his book Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes it is the astonishing true story of three fearless teenage resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. We’ll be meeting Thursday, July 15th at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom, join us! Details TBA.  ...

The August selection for our monthly book club is The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survival as they undertake the Syrian refugee trail to Europe. Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When ...

The September selection for our monthly book club is The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: A sweeping debut novel, inspired by the life of the author’s mother, about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother—but her ...

The October selection for our monthly book club is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is a...

The November selection for our monthly book club is The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named one of its ten best contemporary African books, Caine Prize finalist Tendai Huchu (The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician) portrays the heart of contemporary Zimbabwean society with humor and grace. Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s s...

The December selection for our monthly book club is A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain, read with us! Meeting date to be determined. About the Book: From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe's greatest cuilnary adventures The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired b...