Novels at Night download a schedule
1st Wednesday of the Month • 7:30 pm
Meets in the Adult solarium
Mar. 4 Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
Michael Rosenheim, a stand-up comedian, is visiting his father in a Florida nursing home when the elderly man presents his son with a 24-volume set of journals. Heshel Rosenheim, a concentration camp survivor,
has lived an exemplary life, contributing money
and time to Jewish charities and causes throughout the
country and world. However, the journals reveal that
Heshel was formerly Heinrich Mueller, a Nazi lieutenant.
Apr. 1 Run by Ann Patchett
Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is
his ability to keep his children - all his children - safe." "Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us
how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can
May 6 Belong to Me by Marisa De los Santos
June 3 New England White by Stephen L. Carter
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Coffee Talk Book Club download a schedule
2nd Thurs. of the month • 10:30 am
Meets in the Adult solarium
March 12 March by Geraldine Brooks
From Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and has added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.
April 16 Never Let Me Go by Kauzo Ishiguro
As a child, Kathy attended Hailsham, a private school whose teachers and guardians sheltered students
rom reality. Now 31, Kathy has assumed the position for
which she was trained at Hailsham so long ago. When
she is thrown together with her old school friends, she
begins to relive experiences and her memories reveal that
the pastoral and pleasant Hailsham harbored dark and
mysterious secrets that she now can begin to understand.
May 14 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Jun. 11 A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve |
