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 [...]
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 [...]