Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle…
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Book Club will meet on Tuesday, December 16th at 7 p.m. for 75 minutes.
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Book Club Event Details Click Here to Register Online Get the Book About How I Learned to Hide Shining light into the depths of darkness… “Lisa Kessler-Peters invites you on a healing journey in her new book, How I Learned to Hide. Lisa’s deep brokenness began as a child and continued into adulthood. Reading her healing process will start to…
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Book Club Event Details Get the Book About the Book Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Hugo Award FinalistA National BestsellerIndie Next PickNew York Public Library Top 10 Book of…
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Book Club Event Details Participants must Sign Up In Advance Here Get the Book About the Book The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole—and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both—from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City “Imagine if probation didn’t exist. And I came to you with $80 million and 30,000 people the courts considered…
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Book Club Event Details Click Here to Register Online Get the Book About the Book France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries…
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Book Club Event Details Click Here to Register Online Get the Book About Why I Tried to Die Throughout a lifetime wrought with trauma and despair, Lisa Kessler Peters personifies resilience. Yet, with the release of her memoir, Why I Tried to Die, she cements a much different legacy. One in which she uses her inspired storytelling to empower those…
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Book Club Event Details Get the Book About None of this is True Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each…
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