The River Knows Your Name

Kelly Mustain

For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase—a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy.

Historical Fiction

January 15th
6 PM

February 19th
6 PM

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant 

Curtis Chin

Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung’s, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy’s childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him—and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.

Biography/Memoir

Take My Hand

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.

Historical Fiction

March 19 @ 6 PM

Shades of Grey

Jasper Fforde

Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russett experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge.

Science Fiction/Fantasy

April 16 @ 6 PM

The Secret Hours

Mick Heron

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service 'to investigate historical over-reaching.' Now the administration that brought Monochrome into being has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust, and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects swirl down the drain.

Thriller/Suspense

May 21 @ 6 PM