This month we will be reading The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio! Register for our Book Club! Book Synopsis One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on [...]
This month we will be reading The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover! Register for our Book Club! Book Synopsis Set in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present. The story observes their coming [...]
This month we will be reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens! Register for our Book Club! Book Synopsis For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found [...]
This is a small but powerful book. Please join us for the discussion of We Should All Be Feminists By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the [...]
Register HERE In Reach By: Pamela Carter Joern In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. More about this book
Register HERE At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika’s mother was dying, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna’s [...]
Register HERE Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things―from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen―provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for [...]
Register Here: Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the [...]
Connect with other readers! Discuss the book, ask questions, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! Register HERE The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too [...]
Connect with other readers! Discuss the book, ask questions, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading!
