November 8: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black  by Terry Roberts "Ellis Island, 1920. New York Harbor's immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island. Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet […]

Book group - Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent […]

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles   NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are […]

March 14 at 4:00, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray   The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author […]

Bill Roorbach is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls in a world determined to tear them apart. When Cindra Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she’s a young, privileged white girl who has evaded more severe punishment for her crime. Even at Camp Challenge, she gets special treatment, unlike the punishment many of the girls […]