This story is told in twelve plane flights. Each of the short chapters has as its title an airport departure and destination code (Chapter One, LGW-MAD, Chapter 12, BUD – LGW), beginning and ending in London.
The story moves through …
Tuesday, June 02, 2:00 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion, The Yellow Wallpaper by Sara Baume is going online.
Join us for an live video chat at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88147395067 or by calling 312-626-6799. Meeting ID: 380 262 146.
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Fifty-year-old formerly famous childrens’ book author Judy Vogel is anxious. Separated from her anxious, failed musician husband, they still live in the same house in order to support their anxious thirteen-year-old Montessori school attending son.
One day, Judy dons a …
Tuesday, May 05, 1:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be the short story, Dreams of the Starcatcher by Penny Blubaugh.
Join us for an live video chat at us02web.zoom.us/j/82166954435 or by calling 312-626-6799.
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Tuesday, April 07,
2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion, Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume is going online.
Join us for an live video chat at https://zoom.us/j/380262146 or by calling 312-626-6799.
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Monday, March 02, 2020, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Tuesday, March 03, 2020, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal...
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In 2013, three years before David Bowie died, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum hosted an exhibition called “David Bowie Is.” As a part of the exhibition, Bowie supplied the museum with a list of 100 books that had influenced him. …
Monday, February 03, 2020, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Tuesday, February 04, 2020, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman...
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Monday, January 06, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Tuesday, January 07, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be The Leavers by Lisa Ko...
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Monday, December 02, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Tuesday, December 03, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be Teacher Man by Frank McCourt...
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Monday, November 04, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Tuesday, November 05, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month's Adult Book Discussion book will be Little Faith by Nickolas Butler...
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Monday, October 07, 6:00 – 7:30 PM. Tuesday, October 08, 2:00 – 3:30 PM.
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev.
Kimi grows up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai’s …
I have acarophobia (extreme fear of very tiny bugs), so I’m still trying to figure out why I couldn’t put down Holly Goddard Jones’ dystopian novel in which the only common enemy is the deadly virus-carrying miner tick.
In an …
Monday, September 09, 6:00 – 7:30 PMTuesday, September 10, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino.
Germany, 1943: Impoverished and alone, Rosa has been conscripted to be one …
Monday, August 05, 7:00 – 8:30 PMTuesday, August 06, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman.
Three years after her husband’s death, Lilian is getting her life …
Monday, July 01, 7:00 – 8:30 PMTuesday, July 02, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister.
In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer …
Fans of Ruth Reichl’s autobiographical works will want to continue the journey with her new book Save Me the Plums.
When Gourmet Magazine ceased publication in 2009, Reichl had been its editor-in-chief for ten years. She chronicles those years …
Monday, June 03, 7:00 – 8:30 PMTuesday, June 04, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be Burned by Edward Humes.
In 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her …
Monday, May 06, 7:00 – 8:30 PMTuesday, May 07, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis.
When she arrives at the Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, …
Monday, April 08, 7:00 – 8:30 PMTuesday, April 09, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be How to Walk Away by Katherine Center.
Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s …
Monday, March 04, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Tuesday, March 05, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be West by Carys Davies.
When Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that ancient bones have been discovered in …
Monday, February 04, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Tuesday, February 05, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be This Is What Happened by Mick Herron.
Living alone in a sublet in the huge city of London, …
Monday, January 07, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Tuesday, January 08, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak.
It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire …
