By V.E. Schwab
With Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 2PM.

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

By Alice Walker
With Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Friday, May 10, 2024. 1:30PM.

Read the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker then see how it is interpreted and adapted for the screen. A short discussion will follow the film.

Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2024. 2PM.

Four famous siblings throw an epic end–of–summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family's generations come to light, changing their lives forever.

By William Kent Krueger
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 25, 2024. 2PM.

Fleeing the Depression–era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a life–changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.

By Jessa Maxwell
With Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 10AM.

During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.

By Erin Morgenstern
With Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 23, 2024. 2PM.

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.

By Susan Meissner
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 27, 2024. 2PM.

In 1947, Helen Calvert, returning to her brother’s vineyard in America for good after witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler’s brutal pursuit of hereditary purity, is drawn into battle at home when she discovers what really happened to the vinedresser’s pregnant daughter she had long ago befriended.