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Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, Feb. 13
10:30 am -12:00 pm

This month the book club discusses My Life in France by Julia Child. The legendary food expert describes her years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman who could not cook or speak any French to the publication of her cookbooks and becoming "The French Chef."

Third floor Iris Room.

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado, 20 de febrero
11:00 am -12:30 pm

Ficciones de Jorge Luis Borges. Antonio Jose Bolivar Proana takes refuge in his books. He readers paperback books about faraway places while cursing the gringos that bring tragedy into his life, the mayor who brings corruption into his life, and gold prospectors who bring opportunism into his life.

Third floor Iris Room.


Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, Feb. 27
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of The Fault Tree by Louise Ure. Eight years after being blinded in a horrific car accident that also claimed the life of her toddler niece, Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran becomes the target of a killer who, unaware of her disability, believes that she can identify the getaway car in the murder of her elderly neighbor.

Third floor, Iris Room.

     
   
   
The Sculptress Second Saturday Book Club
Saturday, March 13
10:30 am -12:00 pm

This month the book club discusses The Sculptress by Minette Walters. Journalist Roz Leigh is drawn into the disturbing world of Olive, a hugely grotesque and menacing woman imprisoned--perhaps wrongly--for the murders of her sister and mother. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Third floor Iris Room.

Todos los Fuegos el fuego

Amigos de Nuestra Literatura
sábado, 20 de marzo
11:00 am -12:30 pm

Todos los Fuegos el Fuego by Julio Cortázar. Todos los fuegos el fuego ofrece ocho muestras rotundas de la plenitud creadora que alcanzan los cuentos de Cortazar. Desde la exasperada metafora de las relaciones humanas que es La autopista del sur, hasta la maestria El otro cielo, Cortazar vuelve a abrir nuevos caminos con relatos que son referencia obligada para sus lectores y para los amantes del cuento en general.

Third floor Iris Room.

Rough Weather
Just for Mystery Lovers
Saturday, March 27
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of Rough Weather: A Spenser Novel by Robert B. Parker. Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.

Third floor, Iris Room.

     
     
 
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