April Meeting

In April, we will be discussing The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.

"In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.

Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master’s opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds."

July's Meeting

For July, we are reading a book that is for lovers of books, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.  Through Fikry's bumbling and wonderful life journey, the reader understands just how important books are.

"We read to know we are not alone."

August's Book Club Meeting

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

July's Meeting

The Husband's Secret

Cecelia Fitzpatrick leads a seemingly perfect life.  That is, until she finds a letter from her husband to be opened after his death.  She opens it anyway, and finds that her husband has been hiding secrets.  Her life is about to change. . . 

June Book Club Meeting

For June, we will be reading:

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

An incredible true story almost not told.

February Meeting

The Art of Love is Never a Science

 

"MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.

Rosie Jarman is all these things. She also is strangely beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. And while Don quickly disqualifies her as a candidate for the Wife Project, as a DNA expert Don is particularly suited to help Rosie on her own quest: identifying her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on the Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you."

 

Join us for a Valentine's Meeting! 

January Meeting

The Hunt

Don't sweat, don't smile, don't flinch, don't draw attention to yourself because you do not want to be found.  In a society full of duskers, being human means certain death.  Unless you are Gene and can blend in.

December Meeting and Christmas Party

It's our First Annual Christmas Luncheon!  Share the gift of one of your favorite books in a White Elephant gift exchange.  Bring your book WRAPPED.  The book does not have to be new, it can be an old favorite off the shelf.  

We will be having a luncheon and if you would like to contribute, please contact Cambria via Facebook.

Our book for December's meeting is The Ocean and the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.  

November Meeting

This Halloween season, we delve into the thriller, Gone Girl.  One morning, Nick's wife, Amy, disappears.  Signs of a struggle and only Nick's word against the evidence.

September Meeting

For September, we will be reading Calling Me Home by new author, Julie Kibler.  When 89-year-old, Isabelle asks her long-time hair dresser and friend, Dorrie to drive her cross-country to a funeral, both women discover that they have been withholding secrets that only the other one can uncover.

August Meeting

Laurel carries a secret.  A secret she has kept for fifty years.  Now an old woman, she has one last chance to find clues to solve the mystery of the secret that has haunted her for years.