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Book Group November 8: The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a…

Book Group October 11: This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel
A novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family.

Book Group September 13: Red Notice

by Bill Browder
A financial caper, crime thriller, and political crusade. The story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.

Book Group August 9: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman
the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey

Book Group July 12: Revolution Song

by: Russell Shorto From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate…

BookGroup June 14: White Rose Black Forest

by Eoin Dempsey
In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.

BookGroup May 10: Calling Me Home

by Julie Kibler
A soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

BookGroup April 12: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives...

Book Group March 8: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, with humor and drama—and with an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if they only had a lake....

BookGroup Feb 8: The Gentleman From Moscow by Arthur Towles

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.