May 9, at 4:00: Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley. "A wonderful feel-good story, especially for anyone whose world, like mine, revolves not around people but around animals. “Patty "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose […]

Bill Roorbach is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls in a world determined to tear them apart. When Cindra Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she’s a young, privileged white girl who has evaded more severe punishment for her crime. Even at Camp Challenge, she gets special treatment, unlike the punishment many of the girls […]

March 14 at 4:00, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray   The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author […]