This month, we will be reading "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder. Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of [...]
This month, we will be reading "Girl Runner" by Carrie Snyder. Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis Girl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart, a pioneering athlete who captured world attention during the 1928 Olympics. Now, at the age of 104, alone, and in a nursing home, she seems forgotten by history. But [...]
This month we will be reading Educated by Tara Westover! Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". [...]
This month we will be reading Radium Girls by Kate Moore! Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright [...]
This month we will be reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee! Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch— "Scout”—returns home from New York City to visit her aging [...]
This month we will be reading In Spite of Heroin by Dana Chase! Register for our Book Club! Book synopsis An idyllic upbringing, unconditional love, and the serenity of the Heartland USA were not enough to shield this close-knit family from heroin. In her moving, ultimately hopeful narrative of struggle and redemption, Dana Chase writes unsparingly [...]
