Departures Hybrid Book Discussion – Thursdays @ 12:30pm
12/4 – Register – Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Book / Large Type / Book on Compact Disc
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
1/15 – Register – Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
In this moving elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.
Hoopla eBook / Hoopla eAudio / Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / Large Type
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
2/12 – Register – Trust by Hernan Diaz.
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New York City.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio / Book / Large Type
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
Truth Be Told… Nonfiction Hybrid Book Group – Thursdays @ 12:30pm
9/25 – Register – The theater of war: what Ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today by Bryan Doerries.
Draws on the celebrated director’s work to evaluate the therapeutic potential of the ancient artistic tradition of socially conscious theater, demonstrating how audiences who have suffered from PTSD and other traumas have benefited from its messages and empathetic style.
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
11/20 – Register – Book and dagger: how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II by Elyse Graham.
This untold story of the academics who became OSS spies and invented modern spycraft tells how they were able to change the course of World War II and help defeat the Nazis.
Hoopla eBook / Hoopla eAudio / Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.
1/29 – Register – Your Brain on Art. How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.
Breakthrough research, insights from pioneers and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts are essential for improving physical and mental health.
Nassau Overdrive eBook / Nassau Overdrive eAudio
Flyer – Participants will receive a Zoom link 30 minutes before the discussion.