DISCUSSION GUIDES

Summary: This novel, told in three parts, is a searing meditation on grief, female strength, and self‑discovery set against a backdrop of complicated social and racial histories. Nobody's Magic is a testament to the power of family—the ones you're born in and the ones you choose. And in these three narratives, among the yearning and loss, each of these women may find a seed of hope for the future.

Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.

Summary: Equal parts visceral and cerebral, Six Days in Rome is an ode to the Eternal City, a celebration of art and creativity, and a meditation on self-discovery.

Summary: From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.

Summary: Hospice and oncology nurse and the author of New York Times bestseller The Shift, Theresa Brown shares a powerful story about breast cancer─her own─in this new memoir. As a patient (the most terrified, furious patient she’d ever encountered), Brown takes us inside the care she received and the care she gave others as a nurse, and she considers what both she and our healthcare system could do better.

Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Never Have I Ever returns with an even more engrossing novel of domestic suspense in which a mother must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her child and the life she loves—an unforgettable tale of power, privilege, lies, revenge, and the choices we make, ones that transform our lives in unforeseen ways.

Summary: Nothing burns like a love up in flames. Critically acclaimed author Ashley Woodfolk delivers a blistering story of queer love, loss, and friendship.

Summary: Bruce Duncan, a WWII battlefield surgeon, is haunted by wartime traumas as he struggles to build a new life as a small town general practitioner. In a story that flashes back from postwar America to England under the siege of German rockets and to the killing fields of Alsace, A Stream to Follow gives fresh vision for paths to redemption and healing.