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2024-04-30 Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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.

2024-05-10 Color Purple

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.

2024-05-28 Malibu Rising

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.