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VB Reads...Afternoon Book Chat

Join Sittrea in the Readings Gallery on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00pm for an OPEN Book Chat. Authors DO NOT attend. Bring a latte and enjoy! Everyone welcome. We're looking forward to seeing you in the Readings Gallery! For questions, please email bookgroups@villagebooks.com.

Join Sittrea in the Readings Gallery on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 for an OPEN Book Chat. Authors DO NOT attend. Bring a latte and enjoy! Everyone welcome.

*Mask Policy: Masks are encouraged but not required.

Wednesday, April 10, 1:00pm

Astoria by Peter Stark

Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier By Peter Stark Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062218308
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco - February 10th, 2015

Wednesday, April 10, 1:00pm

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.

MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d GoneThe Vanishing Act of Esme LennoxThe Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.

The Marriage Portrait: A novel By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593315088
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - July 11th, 2023

Wednesday, May 8, 1:00pm

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.

Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with The Alice NetworkThe HuntressThe Rose Code, and The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. She and her husband now live in California with three black rescue dogs.

The Rose Code: A Novel By Kate Quinn Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062943477
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - March 9th, 2021

Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm

Joan is Okay by Weike Wang

Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life by their own cultural and social expectations.

Weike Wang was born in Nanjing, China, and grew up in Australia, Canada, and the United States. She is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. Her first novel, Chemistry, received the PEN/ Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, the Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a Whiting Award. She is a “5 Under 35” honoree of the National Book Foundation and her work has appeared in The New Yorker. She currently lives in New York City.

Joan Is Okay: A Novel By Weike Wang Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525563952
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 7th, 2023