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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
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Our Non-Fiction Group: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott
Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies' descendants, Abbott weaves the adventures of four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the Civil war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it. We will discuss these daring heroines on
Tuesday, April 25 @ 6pm.
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The Art Forger
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Our Fiction Group: The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--still the largest unsolved art theft in history--one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece--the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years--may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing--and not seeing--the secrets that lie beneath the canvas we will discuss on
Tuesday, May 9 @ 6:30pm.
Our Travel Group: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
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Deep South
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Paul Theroux has spent the past fifty years roaming the globe, describing his encounters with remote people and far-flung places in ten best-selling travel books. Now, for the first time, he explores a part of America--the Deep South. Setting out on a winding road trip, Theroux discovers a region of architectural and artistic wonders, incomparable music, mouth-watering cuisine--and also some of the worst schools, medical care, housing, and unemployment rates in the nation.
Yet, no matter where he goes, Theroux meets the unsung heroes of the South, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who found their way home and devoted their lives to rebuilding a place they could never live without. Join us to talk about
Deep South on
Tuesday, May 16 @ 6:30pm.
