Book: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad Date: Friday, June 25, 7pm Summary: A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad…

Book: Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Date: Friday, May 28th, 7pm Summary: The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in…

Book: The Leavers by Lisa Ko Date: Friday, April 30, 7pm Summary: One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is…

Book: That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon Date: Friday, March 26th, 7pm Summary: From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes—America’s public lands. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust…

Book: The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton Date: Friday, February 26th, 7pm Summary: In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed…