{"id":29678,"date":"2023-11-17T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/?p=29678"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:49:28","slug":"afterthoughts-book-discussion-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/afterthoughts-book-discussion-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterthoughts Book Discussion Group – Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Second Tuesday of each month| 12 – 1 PM | Adults 18+<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore great books, join a lively discussion, and meet others who enjoy reading too. New members are always welcome! Library copies of the book are available at the Central Library’s second-floor Circulation Desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information or to receive Afterthoughts email reminders and updates, please contact Lisa Lipshires at llipshires@springfieldlibrary.org<\/a> or (413) 263-6828, ext. 202.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Reading Selections for 2026<\/div>
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January 13<\/strong> \u2013Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon<\/a><\/em> <\/em><\/strong>by Melissa L Sevigny (2023) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tale of two pioneering botanists who risked their lives in 1938 to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.<\/p>\n\n\n

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February 10<\/strong> \u2013 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman<\/a><\/em> by Ernest J. Gaines (1971) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spans one hundred years of Miss Jane\u2019s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope\u2014as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 10<\/strong> \u2013 We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People<\/a><\/em> by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson (2024) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. Her impassioned memoir tells the story of her indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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April 14<\/strong> \u2013 The Second Life of Mirielle West<\/a><\/em> by Amanda Skenandore (2021) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The glamorous world of a silent film star\u2019s wife abruptly crumbles when she\u2019s forcibly quarantined in a leper\u2019s home. At first, she hopes her exile will be brief, but her disease has no cure. Instead, she must find community and purpose within the walls of the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n

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May 12<\/strong> \u2013 Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner<\/a><\/em> by Natalie Dykstra (2024) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America’s most fascinating museums\u2014an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s world, museum, and the art she collected.<\/p>\n\n\n

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June 9<\/strong> \u2013 Pomegranate <\/a><\/em>by Helen Elaine Lee (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranita Atwater is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n

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July 14<\/strong> \u2013 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference<\/a><\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell (2000) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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August 11<\/strong> \u2013The Twilight Garden<\/a><\/em> by Sara Nisha Adams (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive their community\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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September 8<\/strong> \u2013 Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free<\/a><\/em> by Suzanne Heywood (2023) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At age seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her family on what was supposed to be a three-year voyage around the world. What followed was a decade-long way of life through storms, shipwrecks, reefs, and isolation, with little formal schooling. It was only Suzanne\u2019s determination to educate herself that enabled her to finally escape.<\/p>\n\n\n

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October 13<\/strong> \u2013The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store<\/a><\/em> by James McBride (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1972, construction workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, find a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans shared their lives, ambitions, and sorrows.<\/p>\n\n\n

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November 10<\/strong> \u2013 The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America<\/a><\/em> by Elizabeth Letts (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1954, her doctor had given sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins only two years to live, but she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. Buying a cast-off brown gelding, Annie donned men’s dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n

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December 8<\/strong> \u2013 Small Things Like These<\/a><\/em> by Claire Keegan (2021) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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January 14 \u2013The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Christopher C. Gorham (2023) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became a real power behind national policies critical to America winning World War II and prospering afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n

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February 11 \u2013<\/strong> <\/em>The Great Unexpected<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Dan Mooney (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel lives in a nursing home, and he\u2019s not one bit happy about it. He\u2019s fed up with life and starts to plan a way out when his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, moves in and turns the nursing-home community upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 11 \u2013<\/strong> <\/em>All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley\u2019s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Tiya Miles (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items. Today, Ashley\u2019s sack is displayed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Historian Tiya Miles traces the life and cultural context of Ashley\u2019s sack as it was handed down through three generations of loving Black women.<\/p>\n\n\n

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April 8 \u2013<\/strong> <\/em>The Bookbinder<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Pip Williams (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twin sisters with divergent life goals work in the bindery of the Oxford University Press during World War I. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy wants to read books, not just bind them, but Maude is happy with her life just the way it is. When war refugees arrive in Oxford, Peggy begins to envision a future where she can educate herself and use her intellect, not just her hands.<\/p>\n\n\n

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May 13 \u2013 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Daniel James Brown (2013) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times\u2014the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.<\/p>\n\n\n

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June 10<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>Take My Hand<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2022) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.<\/p>\n\n\n

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July 8<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>Endurance: Shackleton\u2019s Incredible Voyage<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Alfred Lansing (1959) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well-researched, inspiring story of how twenty-eight men battled almost insurmountable odds in 1914 to return to civilization after their ship Endurance<\/em> sank near the South Pole. In 21st century management classes, Shackleton\u2019s success in bringing his crew home is often cited as an example of gifted leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n

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August 12<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>Lessons in Chemistry<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Bonnie Garmus (2022) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hilarious, idiosyncratic, and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman’s place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America’s most beloved TV cooking show.<\/p>\n\n\n

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September 9<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>Bird Brother: A Falconer\u2019s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Rodney Stotts (2022) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C., young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. In a few years, like many in his neighborhood, he started dealing drugs. In Bird Brother<\/em>, Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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October 14<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>The Museum of Failures<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Thrity Umrigar (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remy Wadia has returned to India to adopt a baby and to see his estranged mother for the first time in several years. Stricken with guilt to find her in the hospital, Remy makes it possible for her to return home. Yet when he discovers an old photograph from his adoring late father, shocking long-held family secrets surface.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wednesday, November 12<\/strong> <\/mark>\u2013 <\/em>Pastoral Song: A Farmer\u2019s Journey<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by James Rebanks (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author chronicles his family’s farm in England’s Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of human relationships to the land.<\/p>\n\n\n

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December 9<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>O Pioneers!<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Willa Cather (1913) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Nebraska as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra’s devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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January 9<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus<\/strong><\/a> by Lucy Ward (2022) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As smallpox ravaged her empire and threatened her court, Catherine the Great took the momentous decision to summon the Quaker physician Thomas Dimsdale to St. Petersburg to carry out a secret mission that would transform both their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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February 13 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013Symphony of Secrets<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Brendan Slocumb (2023) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time\u2014that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 12 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> \u201cYou\u2019ll Like It Here:\u201d The Story of Donald Vitkus, Belchertown Patient #3394<\/strong><\/a> by Ed Orzechowski (2016) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandoned by his unwed mother during World War II, Donald Vitkus is committed to the Belchertown State School, where he is labeled a \u201cmoron\u201d with an I.Q. of 41\u2026He later serves in Vietnam, searches for his family, marries, and earns a college degree\u2014all in a lifelong battle to convince others and himself, that Donald Vitkus is not a moron.<\/p>\n\n\n

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April 9 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Keeping Lucy<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by T. Greenwood (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginny Richardson’s heart was broken when her baby girl, Lucy, was born with Down Syndrome and was sent to a special school (based on the Belchertown State School) for the “feeble-minded.\u201d Two years later, when Ginny’s friend sees a series of articles exposing the school as a hell-on-earth, she knows she cannot leave her daughter there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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May 14<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Thin<\/a><\/strong>k<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>by Jennifer Ackerman (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the author of The Genius of Birds<\/em> and What an Owl Knows<\/em>, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds\u2014how they live and how they think.<\/p>\n\n\n

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June 11<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>Never Let Me Go<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hailsham seems like a pleasant boarding school secluded in the English countryside, but when Kathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school, they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July 9 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>by Patrick Bringley (2023) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heartbroken from the death of his beloved brother, Patrick Bringley seeks refuge as a security guard at New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art. He enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the beautiful artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards.<\/p>\n\n\n

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August 13 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>Breakfast with Buddha<\/strong><\/a> by Roland Merullo (2007) fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home to settle their parents\u2019 estate, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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September 10 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and An Extraordinary Reckoning<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Ben Raines(2022) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day\u2014by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.<\/p>\n\n\n

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October 8 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>The Personal Librarian<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray(2021) fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork, she quickly becomes one of the most powerful people in the art and book world. But she has a secret: she was born Belle Marion Greener, daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality.<\/p>\n\n\n

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November 12 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Kate Moore(2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore recounts the stunning true account of a woman who fought back against a tyrannical husband, a complicit doctor, and nineteenth-century laws that gave men shocking power to silence and confine their wives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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December 10 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom – <\/strong>When the Emperor Was Divine<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Julie Otsuka (2002) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spare and poetic prose, Otsuka focuses on a single family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II to evoke the oppression of a generation of Japanese Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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January 10<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir<\/strong><\/a> by Ai Weiwei (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ai Weiwei\u2014one of the world’s most famous artists and activists\u2014tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation’s most celebrated poet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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February 14 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> The Lincoln Highway<\/strong><\/a> by Amor Towles (2021) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relates the adventures of four boys\u2014three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus one of their 8-year-old brothers\u2014as they travel from Nebraska to New York City in 1954.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 14 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II<\/strong><\/a> by Molly Guptill Manning (2014) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronicles the joint effort of the U.S. government, the publishing industry, and the nation’s librarians to boost troop morale during World War II by shipping more than one hundred million books to soldiers at the front lines.<\/p>\n\n\n

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April 11 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>The Yellow Bird Sings<\/strong><\/a> by Jennifer Rosner (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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May 9<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest<\/strong><\/a> by Suzanne Simard (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illuminates the fascinating truths that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life and that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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June 13<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>The Violin Conspiracy<\/strong><\/a> by Brendan Slocumb (2022) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather\u2019s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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July 11 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live<\/strong><\/a> by Danielle Dreilinger (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Dreilinger traces home economics from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies, restoring a disparaged field to its rightful importance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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August 8 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>Joan is Okay<\/strong><\/a> by Weike Wang (2022) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan is a successful thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital, but when her father suddenly dies in China, and her mother returns to America to reconnect with her children, a series of events sends Joan spiraling out of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n

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September 12 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 <\/strong>Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis<\/strong><\/a> by Timothy Egan (2012) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A biography of Edward Curtis, the photographer who devoted 30 years to documenting the lives, stories, and rituals of Native American tribes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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October 10 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>The House of the Seven Gables<\/a><\/strong> by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greedy, piratical Colonel Pyncheon builds his mansion on ill-gotten ground, setting the stage for generations of suffering. Years later, a country cousin and an enigmatic young boarder attempt to reverse the tide of misfortunes surrounding the house.<\/p>\n\n\n

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November 14 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>  <\/em>The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War<\/strong><\/a> by John \u201cChick\u201d Donohue and J.T. Molloy (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wildly entertaining  memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving in Vietnam in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n

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December 12 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom – <\/strong>The Remains of the Day<\/strong><\/a> by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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\"BraidingJanuary 11<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants<\/strong><\/a> by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.<\/p>\n

\"TheFebruary 8 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> The Mountains Sing<\/strong><\/a> by Nguy\u1ec5n Phan Qu\u1ebf Mai (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n

The multigenerational tale of the Tr\u1ea7n family, set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War, brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope.<\/p>\n

\"MillMarch 8 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains<\/strong><\/a> by Kerri Arsenault (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

In this investigative memoir, Kerri Arsenault examines what happened to her small hometown in Maine, which orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone, but which also contributed to the community\u2019s extremely high cancer rate.<\/p>\n

\"Nobody'sApril 12 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Nobody\u2019s Fool<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Russo (1993) fiction.<\/p>\n

A slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York\u2014and the life of Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.<\/p>\n

\"HookedMay 10<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions<\/strong><\/a> by Michael Moss (2021) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communities\u2014as well as food manufacturers\u2014already know: that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.<\/p>\n

\"TheJune 14<\/strong> \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> The Vanishing Half<\/strong><\/a> by Brit Bennett (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n

After growing up together in a small, southern Black community and running away at age sixteen, identical twin sisters choose dramatically different paths\u2014one embracing her identity as a Black woman, and the other passing for White.<\/p>\n

\"AgentJuly 12 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door<\/strong><\/a> by Ben Macintyre (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

The thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named “Sonya,” who lived as an unassuming housewife in the English countryside and who set the stage for the Cold War.<\/p>\n

\"JackAugust 9 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Jack<\/strong><\/a> by Marilynne Robinson (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n

The fourth novel in Marilynne Robinson\u2019s Gilead series tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.<\/p>\n

\"ChildrenSeptember 13 <\/strong>\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Children of the Land: A Memoir<\/strong><\/a> by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Prize-winning poet Castillo describes his and his family\u2019s encounters with an immigration system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives.<\/p>\n

\"GilgameshOctober 11 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> Gilgamesh<\/strong><\/a> by Joan London (2001) fiction.<\/p>\n

Nineteen-year-old Edith and her young son leave rural Australia for Soviet Armenia in 1939, inspired by an earlier visit from her English cousin and his Armenian friend and their talk of “Gilgamesh,” only to be trapped by World War II.<\/p>\n

\"HNovember 8 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> H is for Hawk<\/strong><\/a> by Helen Macdonald (2014) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.<\/p>\n

\"TheDecember 13 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013<\/strong> The Pull of the Stars<\/strong><\/a> by Emma Donoghue (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n

Julia Power, a dedicated nurse at a Dublin hospital in 1918, pours her energy into caring for patients in the women’s fever ward, tending to pregnant women who are struggling to both give birth and fight off the flu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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\"July,January 12\u00a0\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine<\/strong><\/a> by Gail Honeyman (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.<\/p>\n

\"May,<\/strong>February 9\u00a0\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom <\/b>\u2013 <\/strong>Plainsong<\/strong><\/a> by Kent Haruf (1999) fiction.<\/p>\n

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, several intertwined lives undergo radical change. A high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother abandons them, while his sons try to cope with the violent behavior of a school bully. Out in the country, two gruff, unpolished cattle farmers, bachelors for decades, must relearn the art of conversation when a pregnant teen enters their lives.<\/p>\n

\"JustMarch 9\u00a0\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption<\/a><\/strong> by Bryan Stevenson (2014) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

An unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer\u2019s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.<\/p>\n

\"TheApril 13\u00a0\u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 The Golden Age<\/a><\/strong> by Joan London (2014) fiction.<\/p>\n

Escaping the perils of World War II Hungary for Australia, Frank is diagnosed with polio and sent to a children’s hospital where he falls in love with a fellow patient while their families struggle to adjust to life in a new culture.<\/p>\n

\"BiasedMay 11 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do<\/a><\/strong> by Jennifer Eberhardt (2019) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally. The good news is that we are not hopelessly doomed by our innate prejudices.<\/p>\n

\"ChancesJune 8 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 Chances Are\u2026<\/a><\/strong> by Richard Russo (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n

Three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. Each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend in 1971.<\/p>\n

\"TheJuly 13 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 The Salt Path<\/a><\/strong> by Raynor Winn (2018) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of England\u2019s sea-swept South West Coast Path.<\/p>\n

\"TheAugust 10 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 The Beekeeper of Aleppo<\/a><\/strong> by Christy Lefteri (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo–until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape.<\/p>\n

\"TheSeptember 14 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 The Library Book<\/a><\/strong> by Susan Orlean (2018) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity.<\/p>\n

\"YearOctober 12 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague<\/a><\/strong> by Geraldine Brooks (2001) fiction.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story of the English village of Eyam, Year of Wonders chronicles the year 1665-1666, in which the community was infected by the bubonic plague and a fictional housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer.<\/p>\n

\"HalfNovember 9 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 Half Broke: A Memoir<\/a><\/strong> by Ginger Gaffney (2020) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

A top-ranked horse trainer\u2019s life-affirming memoir that offers profound insight into the fascinating ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive.<\/p>\n


\n\"OnDecember 14 \u2013 Online Meeting Via Zoom \u2013 On Earth We\u2019re Briefly Gorgeous<\/a><\/strong> by Ocean Vuong (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n

A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born\u2014a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam\u2014and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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\"January,<\/strong>January 14<\/strong> \u2013 A Piece of the World<\/a><\/strong> by Christina Baker Kline (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

Imagines the life story of Anna Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World,” describing the simple life she led on a remote Maine farm, her complicated relationship with her family, and the illness that incapacitated her.<\/p>\n

\"February,February 11<\/strong> \u2013 The Monk of Mokha<\/strong><\/a> by Dave Eggers (2018) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

The incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.<\/p>\n

\"March,March 10<\/strong> \u2013 With the Fire on High<\/strong><\/a> by Elizabeth Acevedo (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n

High school senior Emoni Santiago (an aspiring chef) and her two-year-old daughter live with Emoni’s grandmother. Emoni signs up for a culinary arts class that culminates in a trip to Spain–and she begins to see a path forward, if only she dares follow it.<\/p>\n

\"April,April 14<\/strong> \u2013 Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall<\/strong><\/a> by Nina Willner (2016) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

A former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family–of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n

May 12 <\/strong>\u2013 News of the World<\/a> by Paulette Jiles (2016) fiction.<\/p>\n

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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a 70-year-old veteran of the Civil war, accompanies 10-year-old Johanna Leonberger on a 400-mile odyssey to her aunt and uncle’s home. Johanna, who has been living with the Kiowa warriors who had killed her parents four years earlier, no longer speaks English, and tries to escape at every opportunity. Yet, as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n

\"June,June 9<\/strong> \u2013 Afterlife<\/a> <\/strong>by Julia Alvarez (2020) fiction.<\/p>\n

A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.<\/p>\n

\"August,July 14<\/strong> \u2013 My Family and Other Animals<\/strong><\/a> by Gerald Durrell (1956) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Gerald Durrell\u2019s hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family and an assortment of animals on the island of Corfu.<\/p>\n


\n\"December,August 11<\/strong> \u2013 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating<\/strong> <\/a>by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Bedridden with a mysterious virus, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own place in the world.<\/p>\n

\"June,September 8<\/strong> <\/b> \u2013 The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century<\/strong><\/a> by Kirk W. Johnson (2018) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins – some collected 150 years earlier – and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds?<\/p>\n

\"September,October 13 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 The Woman Next Door<\/strong><\/a> by Yewande Omotoso (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

Neighborliness isn’t an option for two elderly enemies [one white, one black] living in adjacent homes in Katterijn, an upscale South African residential community. What will happen when events push them into grudging cohabitation?<\/p>\n

\"October,November 10 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother\u2019s Will to Survive<\/strong><\/a> by Stephanie Land (2019) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.<\/p>\n

\"November,December 8 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Little Faith<\/strong><\/a> by Nickolas Butler (2019) fiction.<\/p>\n

A Wisconsin couple grapples with the power and limitations of faith when their adopted daughter falls under the influence of a radical church.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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\nJanuary 8<\/strong> \u2013 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane<\/a> <\/strong>by Lisa See (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

A young Chinese woman, forced to give up her daughter born out of wedlock, finds purpose, passion, and the key to a new life in the tea-growing traditions of her ancestors. Meanwhile, her daughter grows up as a privileged and well-loved California girl who wonders about her origins.<\/p>\n

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\nFebruary 12<\/strong> \u2013 Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina<\/strong><\/a> by Misty Copeland with Charisse Jones (2014) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

As the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious thirteen-year-old to become a ground-breaking ballerina.<\/p>\n

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\nMarch 12<\/strong> \u2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/a><\/strong> by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) fiction.<\/p>\n

An American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for over eighty years.<\/p>\n

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\nApril 9<\/strong> \u2013 Night<\/a><\/strong> by Elie Wiesel (1956) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in Romania to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting absolute evil.<\/p>\n

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\nMay 14<\/strong> \u2013 The Friendly Persuasion<\/strong><\/a> by Jessamyn West (1945) fiction.<\/p>\n

In fourteen heartwarming vignettes, a Quaker farming family in southern Indiana at the time of the Civil War must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them\u2014sometimes with candor, sometimes with violence\u2014and tests the strength of their beliefs.<\/p>\n

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\nJune 11<\/strong> \u2013 The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border<\/a><\/strong> by Francisco Cantu (2018) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

An ex\u2013Border Patrol agent and descendent of a Mexican immigrant finds himself on both sides of the battle over illegal immigration in this fraught memoir of his time patrolling the Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas borders from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n

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\nJuly 9<\/strong> \u2013 Beartown<\/strong><\/a> by Fredrik Backman (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.<\/p>\n

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\nAugust 13<\/strong> \u2013 The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America\u2019s Enemies<\/strong><\/a> by Jason Fagone (2017) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Traces the life of Elizebeth Smith, who met and married groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman and worked with him to discover and expose Nazi spy rings in South America by cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine.<\/p>\n

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\nSeptember 10<\/strong> \u2013 On Kingdom Mountain<\/strong><\/a> by Howard Frank Mosher (2007) fiction.<\/p>\n

In 1930 Vermont, Jane Hubbell Kinneson, a local bird carver and the last resident of a remote, wild mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border that is threatened by a proposed new highway, confronts some of the most important decisions of her life.<\/p>\n

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\nOctober 8<\/strong> \u2013 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI<\/strong><\/a> by David Grann (2017) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered a chilling conspiracy.<\/p>\n

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\nNovember 12<\/strong> \u2013 The Ninth Hour<\/strong><\/a> by Alice McDermott (2017) fiction.<\/p>\n

A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant’s suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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\nDecember 10<\/strong> \u2013 Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India<\/strong><\/a> by Sujatha Gidla (2017) nonfiction.<\/p>\n

A woman, born as an \u201cuntouchable\u201d into the Indian caste system, describes how she was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s and what it was like growing up in a world full of poverty and injustice but also full of incredible possibility.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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