Discussion Begins at 7pm
January 29th
Readers Choice-You get to pick what you read this month!
February 26th
Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship by Annabel Abbs
366 Pages-Fiction
Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs is a historical novel based on the true story of poet Eliza Acton, who revolutionized cookery writing in Victorian England by creating the first modern, accessible cookbook with her assistant, Ann Kirby, despite societal barriers of class and gender. The dual-narrated story explores their unlikely friendship, their struggle for independence, and their shared passion for food, all while navigating personal secrets and family pressures.
March 26th
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
126 Pages-Fiction
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
April 30th
An Invisible Thread: the True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
260 Pages-Fiction
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.