For our May book, we will read Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott. 

In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't be pinned down," she says. "It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love.In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum.

Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back?

As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s boldest thinkers sharing their most uplifting ideas. Inspired by them, he believes that it’s within our grasp to turn outrage back into optimism. It all comes down to reimagining one of the most fundamental human virtues: generosity. What if generosity could become infectious generosity?

For our January Book Club we will read The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen.

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood."

For our next book club on Wednesday, September 27, 630p, we will read The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton.

On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protestor and young father.

For our next book club on Wednesday, 6/28 at 630p ET, we will discuss The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher.

Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it.

For our April book club on Wednesday, 5/3 at 630p ET, we will discuss Awe by Dacher Keltner.

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon, or the utter amazement when we watch a child walk for the first time?

For our February book club on Wednesday, 2/22 at 630p ET, we will discuss An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

For our December book club on Wednesday, 12/14 at 630p ET, we will discuss The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger:

For our October book club on Wednesday, 10/19 at 630p ET, we will discuss Paul Kalanithi's memoir When Breath Becomes Air.

For our July book club, we are discussing The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama on Wednesday, July 18 at 630p ET.

For our May book club, we are discussing The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.

For our March book club, we are discussing The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness).

In our next Blue Light Book Club, we will be discussing the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It will be held on Wednesday, November 17, at 6:30pm.

Our next Blue Light Book Club is on Wednesday, September 22 at 630 pm EST. We will be discussing Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford. Georgia Reath will be leading our discussion.

Our next Blue Light Book Club is on Wednesday, June 30 at 630 pm EST. We will be discussing The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor. Georgia Reath will be leading our discussion.

All proceeds will be donated to a relevant charity.

Our next Blue Light Book Club is on Wednesday, April 28 at 630 pm EST. We will be discussing See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur. Mark Longhurst will be leading our discussion.

All proceeds will be donated to the Revolutionary Love Project.

Our next Blue Light Book Club is on Wednesday, February 17 at 630 pm EST. We will be discussing Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald. Katy Smith Abbott will be leading our discussion. Do not miss this opportunity.

All proceeds will be donated to the National Audubon Society.

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet.

Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. The Amazon Book Review. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.