We meet the 3rd Thursday of the month at 1:00 p.m. in the Vermont Room. Copies of each book are available at the library circulation desk. On Thursday, January 16th, 2025, We will be discussing "

Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force" by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultranationalist fanatics.

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Dec 25, 2024, 4 to 7 PM

Dec 28, 2024, 1 to 3 PM

Dec 28, 2024, 4 to 5 PM