Brown Bag and a Book Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:00 – 1:00 pm Strassweg Auditorium Our book for April is Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life [...]
Brown Bag and a Book Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:00 – 1:00 pm Strassweg Auditorium Our book for March is Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a [...]
Brown Bag and a Book Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:00 - 1:00 pm Strassweg Auditorium Our book for December is Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: “the eye” to spot fossils no one else [...]
Brown Bag and a Book Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:00 - 1:00 pm Strassweg Auditorium Our book for November is Becoming George Sand by Rosaline Brackenbury. Maria Jameson is having an affair—a passionate, lifechanging affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? Must this new romance mean an end to [...]