Book Club
The book club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at St. Mary from 6 pm – 7pm. Upcoming discussions include:
- September 10: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meisner
- October 8: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- November 12: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- December 10: The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle by Joanne Huist Smith
- January 14: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Past Reads:
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- The Delight of Being Ordinary, a Road Trip with the Pope and the Dali Lama by Roland Merullo
- Waking Up White by Debby Irving
- How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul
- Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope by John Saunders and John U. Bacon
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
- Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Saint John Paul The Great, His Five Loves by Jason Evert
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
- Defying Gravity by Joe Sikorra
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew — Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
- Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
- Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe
- Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River by John Hildebrand
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid
- The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
- A Winter Dream by Paul Evans
- Dorothy Day The World Will Be Saved By Beauty by Kate Hennessy
- Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sara Smarsh
- Raft of Stars by Andrew J Graff
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life bv Jessica Nutik Zitter
- The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
- The Delight of Being Ordinary by Rolland Merullo
- The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe
- Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans
- Lost December by Richard Paul Evans
- The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
- Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan
- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Finding Chika: A little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom
- The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
- The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
- The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
- Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
- Bookshop by the Sea by Denise Hunter
-
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
-
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
- Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict
- The One in a Million Boy by Monica Woods
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt