The Book Club meets on Zoom. Contact Claudette Richards (c_richards@comcast.net) for more information.
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Upcoming Titles and Dates:
January 17, 2026: “The Water is Wide” by Pat Conroy
Our book pick for January, recommended by Darlene and Roland is “The Water is Wide” by Pat Conroy and Darlene will be facilitating our discussion.
The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. It was a year that changed his life, and one that introduced a group of poor Black children to a world they did not know existed.
“A hell of a good story.”
—The New York Times
Previous Titles and Dates:
December: Marjan Kamali’s The Lion Women of Tehran
November: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
October: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer “A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.”
September: Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond
June and July: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
This is the longer book which we would read over June and July as part of our consideration of The America 250 Commemoration. Additional suggested reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
May: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
April: A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
March: In the Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
February: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
January: Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of The Movement by John Lewis
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