Book Group
Join us to discuss books in a small group setting. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month via Zoom. (No meeting in July.) We check in at 10:45 AM, then start the discussion at 11:00 AM, which lasts for about an hour. We select the books as a group every August, choosing from all genres. The discussion is always stimulating, lively and respectful.
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Upcoming Books
November: East of the Mountains by David Guterson
December: Holiday break
January: More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen
February: Land by Maggie O'Farrell
March: Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
April: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
May: Stitched by Eli McCann
Recent Reads
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
The Dry by Lynn Harper
Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Calahan Henry
About The Other Einstein
From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown.
In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. Was she simply Einstein's sounding board, an assistant performing complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more?
Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. Then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.
Marie Benedict illuminates one pioneering woman in STEM, returning her to the forefront of history's most famous scientists.
"The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva's heart, mind, and study as she tries to forge a place for herself in a scientific world dominated by men."—Bustle