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Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, July 10
10:30 am -12:00 pm

This month the book club discusses The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman. A family drama and coming of age story follows the lives of three sisters who create a magical world on their street to escape a tragedy that has changed them forever.

Third floor Iris Room.

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado,17 de julio
11:00 am -12:30 pm

La Ultima Niebla de Maria Luisa Bombal. María Luisa Bombal es una de las voces más grandes y originales del siglo XX, precursora del realismo mágico, lo cual se manifiesta claramente en este invalorable fragmento de su obra.

Third floor Iris Room.


Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, July 24
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of Vanished by Joseph Finder. After an assault leaves his estranged brother nowhere to be found and his sister-in-law in a coma, security investigator and ex-intelligence agent Nick Heller is forced to contend with one of the most powerful and secretive corporations in the world.

Third floor, Iris Room.

     
   
   
Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, August 14
10:30 am -12:00 pm

This month the book club discusses The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

Third floor Iris Room.

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado, 21 de agosto
11:00 am -12:30 pm

En Busca de Klingsor de Jorge Volip Escalante. En un contexto histórico fascinante, Jorge Volpi concibe y ejecuta temas de suma trascendencia como son la relación entre la ciencia y el mal y la búsqueda de la verdad

Third floor Iris Room.


Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, August 28
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, is a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia. Rostnikov and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims. Rostnikov and his team uncover a chain of murders that lead to a source too high to be held accountable if the police want to keep their jobs or their lives.

Third floor, Iris Room.

     
     
 
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