Not For Men Only
First off, let's say this book club is open to anyone of any gender. The reading choices will be books that generally appeal to male readers. Members or interested attendees should send their name and email address to Jim Parina at jim.parina@gmail.com so that they can be notified of any last minute changes. The group meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m.
Upcoming
- February 8: Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
- March 8: The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
- April 12: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
- May 10: The Buddhist on Death Row, David Sheff
- June 14: Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- July 12: White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
- August 9: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
- September 13: The Long Fix, Vivian Lee
- October 11: Rent Collector, Camron Wright
- November 8: Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- December 13: Hannah's War, Jan Eliasberg
- January 10: Wilmington's Lie, David Zucchino
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.
Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON
More than 7 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
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"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon
"Painfully beautiful."--The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post
It may not be a quick fix, but this concrete action plan for reform can create a less costly and healthier system for all.
Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can’t get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business.
Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not really working.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.$18.00ISBN: 9780802148650Availability: On our shelves nowPublished: Grove Press - January 19th, 2021From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans
