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Tuesday Morning Book Club 2022-2023 |
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About the Group
A general book discussion focusing on a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles selected in advance (over the summer) by the group. Meeting Date and Location - Tuesday mornings at 10:30 am, roughly every 6 weeks from September through June
- Upper Level Conference Room of the library (unless otherwise noted).
- RSVP requested but drop-ins are welcome.
- Please check the library's Events Calendar for specific information and to RSVP.
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Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
(FICTION) Gifty was still in elementary school when the solid pillars that bolstered her life tumbled down. Her dad returned to Ghana, her beloved brother Nana overdosed on OxyContin, her mother disappeared in a morass of despair, and God stopped listening. Mentored by a biology teacher, Gifty finds solace in her studies, escaping Alabama for a science lab and a PhD program at Stanford, a place where if you asked questions you'd get answers. Gyasi's contemporary novel of a woman's struggle for connection in a place where science and faith are at odds is a piercingly beautiful tale of love and forgiveness.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
(FICTION) In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith. From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century-- an epic--almost mythic story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
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Perestroika in Paris
by Jane Smiley
(FiCTION) The heroine of Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley's Perestroika in Paris is a high-spirited filly who wanders from her stall at the racetrack and makes her way to the heart of glorious Paris, befriending a venturesome German Shepherd, a gaggle of ornery birds, and a boy named Etienne who lives in the ivy-clad seclusion of his great-grandmother's home.
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Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie : The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of Npr
by Lisa Napoli
(NONFICTION) In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the “women’s pages.” But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women came along and blew it off the hinges..
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Downeast : Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
by Gigi Georges
(NONFICTION) From the decks of lobster boats, inside spirited high school gyms, and into college and the wider world, author Georges follows the lives of five girls in the coastal counties of Downeast Maine. Sitting at the challenging intersection of girlhood and rural life, their stories emerge as they decide to change the course of career limitations, young marriage, and shadows of dysfunction.
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The girl from the Channel Islands
by Jenny Lecoat
(FICTION) Inspired by true events, this is the riveting story of a young Jewish woman trapped on the occupied island of Jersey during World War II. Lecoat capably combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers a cast rich with multidimensional characters.
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The flag, the cross, and the station wagon : a graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened
by Bill McKibben
(NONFICTION) In 1970, when long-time climate activist and rock-steady writer McKibben was 10, his family moved to Lexington, Massachusetts, a town key to the American Revolution and a bastion of white suburban security, prosperity, and conformity. Adept at factual storytelling and connecting the dots, earnest, caring, and funny, McKibben dovetails personal reckonings with an astute elucidation of our social justice and environmental crises, arguing wisely that facing the truth about our past is the only way forward to a more just and sustainable future.
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Need a Copy of the Book? - Click on any of the titles (or book covers) above to check availability in our catalog.
- Check mrspl.ovedrive.com to see if eBook or eAudiobook copies are available.
- Special book group copies for the next month's discussion are also on a first come, first serve basis at each discussion.
Staff Contacts for This Book Club - Catherine Wilson: email | 703-248-5237 (TTY 711)
- Lorri Culhane: email | 703-248-5186 (TTY 711)
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 N. Virginia Ave
Falls Church, Virginia 22046
703-248-5030 (TTY 711)www.mrspl.org |
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