BOOK TALKS – 2024-2025Â
SEPTEMBER — MIRACLE AT PHILADELPHIA by Catherine Bowen (non-fiction) 346 pages Philadelphia 1787 – The Birth of the Constitution of USA where personalities clashed and brilliant ideas prevailed.Â
OCTOBER — AMERICAN GOSPEL by Jon Meacham (non-fiction) 250 pages The birth of the Establishment Clause and the struggle to Maintain it. 1787 to 2000Â
NOVEMBER — PLAYER PIANO by Kurt Vonnegut (fiction) 341 pages More on the Human dilemma. Written in the 1950s, Vonnegut looks forward to a world where machines rule.Â
DECEMBER — THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN by Paul Harding (fiction)Â Â Home, love, heredity, an original and strange plot of Eden revisited. Based on an historical event. 224 pagesÂ
JANUARY — BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA by Jose Saramago (fiction) 368 pages Love, plague and the Spanish Inquisition, how can we go wrong? A love story, part history/part fantasy. (Be sure to get the ENGLISH edition.)Â
FEBRUARY — QUANTUM SUPREMACY by Michio Kaku (non-fiction) What it is and how it will change everything. 352 pages Â
MARCH — MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Old New York’s most fabulous, fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright 352 pages
APRIL — THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride (fiction) 512 page Set in Pottstown, Pa. In 1972, a mixed race community lives on the margins and care for each other with love and understanding.Â
MAY — TBA
