Sunday, February 25, 2024

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir of Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery

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When: March 29
Hostess: Charlotte

A New York Times bestseller! National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet’s rarest and most beautiful animals... < Read More


Friday, February 2, 2024

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray

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When: February 23
Hostess: Allison

The Sunday Times best seller - A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Are we living through the great derangement of our times?

In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of ‘wokeness’, the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive... < Read More