Book Club
July 2024
THE FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Angeline Boulley
A ground-breaking, heart-racing thriller perfect for fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange An instant no. 1 New York Times Bestseller, April 4 2021 Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for YA Fiction, 2021 Winner of CrimeFest Best YA Crime Fiction Prize, 2022. Eighteen-year-old Daunis has always felt like an outsider with her mixed heritage, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. After she witnesses a shocking murder, Daunis reluctantly agrees to go undercover for the FBI, who are convinced a drug trafficking ring are behind it.
August 2024
OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE: A QUEST TO FIND AND SAVE THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWL by Jonathan Slaght
A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght’s life beyond measure. This is the story of Slaght’s quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction.
September 2024
HOLY ENVY: FINDING GOD IN THE FAITH OF OTHERS by Barbara Brown Taylor
The renowned Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching world religions.
Holy Envy explores the many different ways religions conceptualize the world, the divine, our lives, and ourselves—and why understanding other religions should force us to question our own.
October 2024
THE LAST BUS TO WISDOM by Ivan Doig
Donal and Herman ride the Greyhound to Wisdom, Montana, in hopes of working on the annual hay harvest. Their particular ride turns out to be the last bus to Wisdom. They meet a tough-looking group of migrant workers who call themselves the Johnson family and travel from one harvest to another. Told from a little boy’s point of view, “Last Bus To Wisdom” is an hysterically funny, heart-breaking, redeeming, loving story of adventure, sadness, loss, …
November 2024
THE LIGHT PIRATE by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Light Pirate is a mesmerizing coming-of-age story about one little girl in a time and place where nature is determined to assert her dominance over man. Hurricane Wanda leaves behind wreckage that goes far beyond structural damage. Wanda grows up in an environment that is both unwelcoming and viscerally comforting.
