The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan. Four generations of Irish women keep getting better despite the men in their lives, who inconveniently die, get involved in the “Troubl...

July's Book: Lessons in Chemistry Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an ave...

It Would Be Night In Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo. In Venezuela, Adelaida enjoyed a stable childhood. After her mother dies, just surviving becomes a challenge. When things g...

August's Book: Beyond that, the Sea As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send t...

Finding Chika  by Mitch Albom.

September's Book: James When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

October's Book: Her Lost Words 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical auth...

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.

November's Book: Daughters of Shandong Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning A...

  The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer.

December's Book: The House is on Fire Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman ...