Jun 18 - The Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (fiction) Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them. Lucy and Sarah are preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they'd known in childhood.

Jul 16 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (fiction) Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. It's the early 1960s She becomes the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters.

Aug 20 - City of Light by Lauren Belfer (fiction) The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. But a shocking discovery of murder will ignite an explosive chain of events. For in this city of seething intrigue and dazzling progress, a battle rages among politicians, power brokers, and industrialists for control of Niagara.

Sep 17 – A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them By Timothy Egan (nonfiction) A riveting story of the Klan’s rise to power in the 1920’s, the cunning man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and their message was endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership.

Nov 19 – Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult (fiction)Olivia ‘s picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She ends up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping business. A novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and powerful secrets.

Dec 17 - The Ride of Her Life: The true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America by Elizabeth Letts (nonfiction)In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow.