Upcoming Events

Discussing Dead Space by Kali Wallace, a science fiction murder mystery. Hester Marley, a gifted AI expert survives a catastrophic attack that left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home.

Discussing In Order to Live: a North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park.  Park’s memoir details her escape from North K

Discussing The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  This is a standalone fantasy book written in a very beautiful and lyrical writing style that tells the story of the rivalry between two different forms of magic, the old and the

Discussing Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.  Winter Garden is a historical fiction novel based on the Siege of Leningr

Discussing A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.

Discussing author Jhumpa Lahiri is an American novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indi

Discussing 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.  Scientific advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future.

Discussing Desert Queen by Janet Wallach.  This is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world thro

Discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.  This is the story of Nora, a depressed woman in her 30s, who, on the day she decides to die, finds herself in a library full of lives she could have lived.

Discussing Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, & murder by David Grann.

Discussing Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.  A 1953 science fiction novel & Clarke’s first successful novel.

Discussing The Maid by Nita Prose.

Discussing The Road by Cormack McCarthy.  A post-apocalyptic novel that details the grueling journey of a father & his young son as they make their way across a landscape blasted by an unknown cataclysm that has destroyed ne

Discussing author Paul Doiron. Doiron, a native of Maine, is the author of the Mike Bowditch crime novels, which have been nominated for various awards.

Discussing The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.  A science fiction novel about a future world where nanotechnology has become a part of everyday life.  Themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial in

Discussing The Last Astronaut by David Wellington.  Due to a failed mission to Mars, Sally Jansen, a leading astronaut, is convinced her days in space are over.  But she’s wrong.