We gather on the 4th Sunday of the month at 2pm at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Cafe on Promenade in Eagan for our book discussion. There is an attempt to read a variety of books and authors. Book title suggestions are welcome. All interested readers are welcome to join in the discussion. Let’s all read together faithfully!
February 25 Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety – prone strangers discover their unexpected common traits.
March 24 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson a book in the bag selection
A haunting novel spanning several generations The Seed Keeper follows a Dakotah family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and protect what matters most.
April 28 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
This book is based of the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during WWII. It reminds us of the importance of libraries, books and the human connections that can be found in both.
May 19 The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing 21st century El Salvador intersect in this novel about war and immigration.
June 23 Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia
A man and his son go on a camping trip to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota. They fail to return and searchers find their camp site ravaged as by a bear. The pair is presumed dead. Ten years later the son reappears. He is violent and uncommunicative. Can anyone reach him and fill in the previous ten years.
July 28 Deacon King Kong by James McBride
In September 1969, a cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of a housing project, pulls a gun from his pocket and in front of all shoots the project’s drug dealer at point blank range . The reasons for and the consequences of this act are at the heart of this novel.
August 25 Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline
This book is an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.
September 22 Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty a book in the bag selection
If your mother was missing would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the situation faced by the Delaney children. Two of the children think their father is innocent; while two are not so sure. As the two sides square off against each other, all will begin to reexamine their shared family history.
October 27 The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
This is a multigenerational novel set in the 1980’s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and the tiny town of Bonapart, Alabama about a mother fighting for her sanity and her survival.
November 24 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during WWII are revealed.
December Holiday Break
There is no discussion this month. Share a favorite book with someone