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VB Reads ... Afternoon Book Chat Group

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.

 


 

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062300553
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Harper Paperbacks - May 1st, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 1:00pm

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.


The Boat Runner: A Novel By Devin Murphy Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062658012
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Harper Perennial - September 5th, 2017

Wednesday, November 14, 1:00pm

Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with precise, elegant language, The Boat Runner tells the little-known story of the young Dutch boys who were thrown into the Nazi campaign, as well as the brave boatmen who risked everything to give Jewish refugees safe passage to land abroad. Through one boy’s harrowing tale of personal redemption, here is a novel about the power of people’s stories and voices to shine light through our darkest days, until only love prevails. 


My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel By Fredrik Backman Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501115073
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016

Wednesday, December 12, 1:00pm

When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.


Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time By Mark Adams Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780452297982
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Dutton - April 24th, 2012

Wednesday, January 9, 1:00pm

In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer's perilous path in search of the truth--except he'd written about adventure far more than he'd actually lived it. In fact, he'd never even slept in a tent.


News of the World: A Novel By Paulette Jiles Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062409218
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 20th, 2017

Wednesday, February 13, 1:00pm

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.


Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic By Sam Quinones Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781620402528
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - April 5th, 2016

Wednesday, March 13, 1:00pm

With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.


 

Wednesday, April 10, 1:00pm

Voting Month! Come pick which books you would like to read next year!

 

 

 


The Nightingale: A Novel By Kristin Hannah Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250080400
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - April 25th, 2017

Wednesday, May 8, 1:00pm

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.


When the Emperor Was Divine By Julie Otsuka Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780385721813
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor - October 14th, 2003

Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm

In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.


Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250076229
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Metropolitan Books - September 5th, 2017

Wednesday, July 10, 1:00pm

In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures-in his own practices as well as others'-as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life-all the way to the very end.


A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel By Amor Towles Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780670026197
Availability: Not in-stock currently-usually arrives within 1-14 business days
Published: Viking - September 6th, 2016

Wednesday, August 14, 1:00pm
*will substitute if still in hardcover

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.