Lauren Acampora will be joining us in person at the Friars's Club to discuss THE WONDER GARDEN on September 21st!   From the author's website (www.laurenacampora.com):   "In her stunning debut The Won…

JOIN US on MAY 18th for a special discussion with author M.O. Walsh. From the author's website (www.mowalsh.com): "My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on …

Discussion: Wednesday, October 14th at 8:00p.m.   From the author's website: In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers bound and gagged two guards at the Isabel…

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a p…

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant …

The nationally bestselling novel of first love in a time of war-from the author of The Rhythm of Memory and The Last Van Gogh. In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they…

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the fa…

Now a major motion picture starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey Jane Fonda, and Adam Driver

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of …

Author, Junot Diaz, will join us on April 3rd to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel about Oscar Wao and his family on their journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back agai…

One Day is a novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009. Each chapter covers the lives of two protagonists on 15 July, St. Swithin's Day, for twenty years.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discover…

LUCKY US, by Amy Bloom   “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”   So begins the story of teenage half sisters Eva and Iris in thi…

Author Phil Klay will join us on April 30, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss his book of short stories, "REDEPLOYMENT" Here's an excerpt from my personal blogpost - regarding REDEPLOYMENT:   "Just this mo…