We meet at 7:00 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the Winfield Public Library Board Room. Copies of discussion books are available at the circulation desk one month in advance.
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April 3
The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby [nonfiction]
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After 9/11, Muslim Ranya Idliby sought out a Christian and a Jewish mother to help her create a children’s book that would humanize people of each religion to each other. Though the three women started with good will, they found that they had a long and difficult road to travel toward understanding. |
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May 1
A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff
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| Opening a vintage clothing shop in London where she restores classic gowns, Phoebe Swift works to keep up with her unexpected immediate success while struggling with her best friend's death, a rivalry between two suitors, and her mother's cosmetic surgery fixation. |
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June 5
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
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| Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum South before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities. |
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July 3
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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| A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow. |
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August 7
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
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The rise and fall of a prominent Hoosier family as shown through the life and experiences of George Amberson Menafer, a spoiled young man who is unwilling—or unable—to adapt to modern industrial society. Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.
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