Augie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a “special destiny,” although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and “grandmother” who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an “idiot” youngest brother, Georgie.
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Help us welcome to the Stories at the Station series Sally Franson, Swedish-reality TV star and award-winning author to share with us her two hilarious novels: Big in Sweden and A Lady's Guide to Selling Out. This event is not to be missed - Sally's work is heartwarming, charming, and funny in that uniquely Swedish-Minnesotan way. […] |
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Jezebel. We know the word, but not the woman who wore the name long before it was an epithet. Now, we'll learn her story, told in the style of Madeline Miller's Circe, as a triumphant feminist warcry for a queen who deserved more than history gave her. About the Book With a bold voice reminiscent of […]
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Join me and Katie as we revisit one of our all-time favorites. This book makes me buy everything that V.E. Schwab writes, sight unseen. It's perfect and beautiful and heartbreaking and everything you could want in a novel. About the Book France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian […]
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Jimmy leads our quarterly Nonfiction book club with a meeting about Autocracy, Inc. Fair warning, this one hits a little close to home. About the Book From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat […]
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Join us Saturday, August 2 to welcome award-winning local author Heather Texle as she continues her launch tour for On Impact, the second book in the Reliance Sinclair series. This is an adrenaline-fueled science-fiction-espionage-thriller-police-drama-murder-mystery series about a young woman navigating the underbelly of interplanetary human civilization. Think The Expanse meets Honor Harrington with a heavy […] |
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