Books we are Reading

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A debut novel by Elizabeth Dutton. "There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience.  And then there is California." Twenty-seven-year old Clem Jasper is adrift when her famous father dies.  He leaves behind a series of letters that take her on a road trip where she discovers herself.

All the Light We Cannot See is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Anthony Doerr.  Set in occupied France during World War II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths eventually cross.

 With echos of both John Le Carre and Jason Matthews, The Russian Pink is a stylish and fresh page-turner that catapults the reader into the world of blood diamond trading, a world that Matthew Hart, the author of the critically acclaimed Diamond, navigates with authoritative authenticity and wit. 

This debut novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden provides a gritty look at  being a Native American in the 21st century.  Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget.  

The 16th book in Louise Penny's series featuring Chief Inspector Arnand Gamache finds him in the City of Light investigating a sinister plot that becomes personal when his godfather is critically injured in a hit-and-run accident.

John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.