Hey Seniors! Join us at the Riverton Senior Center the first Thursday of every month for Book Club. Call 385-468-3040 to register. 12914 S Redwood Road, just to the southeast of the library.
March: Vanishing Treasures- A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell
"The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness."
April: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
"On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier."
May: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
"Explores the intertwined yet divergent lives of two Iranian girls as they grow into adulthood and experience different social classes, political leanings, and dreams. A textured but hopeful exploration of the bonds of friendship and loyalty among women, the shaping influence of class and culture, and how the changes in government have impacted Iranian women from 1950 onward."
June: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
"When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history."
July: The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
"From America’s favorite government teacher, a fascinating and fun portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks."
August: Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
"The extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset, who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, as she navigates love, identity, ambition, and the vibrant cultural awakening of the era while striving to find her voice and place in a world defined by race and gender."
September: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
"A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare."
