• Afternoon Book Club: What Are You Reading?

    What have you been reading lately?  Stop in to our afternoon book club and share your reads with others or even find some great new reads from others in the group. No specific title or genre is required- read and discuss whatever you like. Looking for a great read? Check out recommended read of the […]

  • Book Club: What Are You Reading?

    Richard M. Daley Library 733 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL, United States

    What have you been reading lately?  Stop in to our monthly book club and share your reads with others or even find some great new reads from others in the group. No specific title or genre is required- read and discuss whatever you like. Looking for a great read? Check out recommended read of the […]

  • Books & Brews: Radium Girls

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, the incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of the fatal effects. […]

  • Cocktails and Conversation – The Farming of Bones

    Weegee's Lounge 3659 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    Join us and enjoy Cocktails and Conversation at Weegee's Lounge as we read and discuss Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones. Books are available for check out at Logan Square Branch. This event is for ages 21 and up.

  • American Experience Book Club: Pale Rider

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    From 1918 - 1920, one of the most horrific worldwide epidemics left over 50 million dead and was one of the greatest disasters of all time. In Pale Rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, author Laura Spivey delves into how the virus travelled globally, not only affecting areas of treatment […]

  • Book Club: What Are You Reading?

    Richard M. Daley Library 733 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL, United States

    What have you been reading lately?  Stop in to our monthly book club and share your reads with others or even find some great new reads from others in the group. No specific title or genre is required- read and discuss whatever you like. Looking for a great read? The recommended read for December is Little […]

  • Books & Brews: Before We Were Yours

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, a story about two families, two generations apart, linked by a notorious real life scandal. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the West […]

  • Cocktails and Conversation: The Last

    Weegee's Lounge 3659 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    Join us and enjoy Cocktails and Conversation at Weegee's Lounge as we read and discuss Hanna Jameson's The Last. "When nuclear war devastates major cities and nations, historian Jon Keller is attending a conference in Switzerland... When the body of a girl is found in one of the tanks supplying the hotel's water, Jon assumes the […]

  • Books & Brews: Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Trace by Lauret Savoy, a provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, exploring how the country’s still unfolding history, and ideas of “race,” have marked […]