January 2025
The Secret Life Of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar and Dana Marton
A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law. When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law.
February 2025
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable passionate, and committed women, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.
March 2025
Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel by Gillian McAllister
As you watch from the window, your son emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. Your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake… and it is yesterday. And then you wake again… and it is the day before yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime – and you don’t have a choice but to find it.
April 2025
West With Giraffes: A Novel by Lynda Rutledge
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, “West with Giraffes” explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.
May 2025
The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
It is 1953, Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an ’emancipation’ bill; but it isn’t about freedom – it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?
September 2025
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
In a globetrotting tale that takes us from the black sands beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech, from the glitzy bachelor pads Los Angeles to the inner sanctums of England’s oldest family estates, Kevin Kwan unfurls a juicy, hilarious, sophisticated and thrillingly plotted story of love, money, murder, sex, and the lies we tell about them all.
