The Magnolia Palace (2022), Fiona Davis, hardcover 352 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Maryann Grauwiler Historical Fiction, Mystery / The lives of two women, fifty years apart, are changed at the Frick mansion in New York City, where their lives intersect through secrets, betrayal and murder.
The Bean Trees (1988) Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial Reissue, May 2013, paperback 246 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Patricia Sterling General Fiction / A young woman with a strong spirit and a warm heart, who wants a better life outside impoverished Kentucky, arrives at new meanings for community, friendship and survival in Arizona.
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (2016), Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, & Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams, hardcover 368 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Jyothi Shroff Personal Growth, Philosophy / Conversations about how to find joy amid suffering during a 7-day meeting between the Dalai […]
Lessons in Chemistry (2022), Bonnie Garmus, hardcover 400 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Marty Walker General Fiction / A feminist tale set in 1950s and 60s California about one-of-a-kind scientist Elizabeth Zott, whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a TV cooking show.
This Tender Land (2020), William Kent Krueger, paperback 464 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Brenda Edwards Historical Fiction / Four orphan children flee the brutal Lincoln Indian Training School in southern Minnesota and embark upon an epic coming-of-age journey through the Depression-era Midwestern U.S.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Charles Dickens, Penguin Christmas Classics, October 2014, hardcover 144 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Priscilla Martin Victorian Literature / Elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed by visitations from ghosts of his past.
Someone Else’s Shoes (2023), JoJo Moyes, hardcover 448 pp Discussion Leader: Cary Flynn General Fiction / In a spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances, two women suddenly find themselves invisible — to their spouses, colleagues, the world — and find joy in being “seen” by each other.
The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Barbara Kingsolver Historical Fiction / An evangelical Baptist minister takes his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959, and findshis mission calamitously transformed. Discussion leader Jill Mountan
Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022), Shelby Van Pelt, hardcover 368 pp Discussion Leader: Priscilla Martin General Fiction, Mystery / Through her relationship with a giant Pacific octopus, a lonely widow discovers that sometimes humans don’t always have all the answers.
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