Our Book Club usually meets on the third Tuesday of the month. Relax with a good book — and then join us for a lively and engaging discussion. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether you enjoyed the book or not, and even if you haven’t finished it.
Multiple copies of our selections are usually available at the Princeton Public Library on the “Book Club” shelves. Or you can purchase the book from Amazon. Every time you visit Amazon from our website, The Jewish Center earns up to 15% of each sale.
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Best wishes to all for wonderful Thanksgiving gatherings—such a great American holiday!
We have the following Book Club meetings planned:
Tuesday, December 16, at 7:30 pm, Via Zoom
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel
Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz—but their differences seem insurmountable, and Aiyi is engaged to another man.
As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. In the face of overwhelming odds, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever. From the electrifying jazz clubs to the impoverished streets of a city under siege, The Last Rose of Shanghai is a timeless, sweeping story of love and redemption. (Goodreads)
Plan Ahead!
Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30 pm Via Zoom
The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
“Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s fourth book sits somewhere between a novel of ideas, a thriller and a character study – a big old-fashioned work of literary fiction in a world where the trend is for the inward-looking. It opens with a bang, as Lilach (known as Leela) Shuster, an Israeli-American living with her husband, Mikhael, in California’s Silicon Valley, tells us that her son Adam, 16, has been accused of killing a Black boy from his school.
‘That’s not true,’ Leela tells us – but she isn’t really sure.” (The Guardian)
To RSVP, and for more details, email louise@sandsmith.com
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Be safe! Stay well!
Regards,
– Donna
Jodi Picoult’s By Any Other Name
Daniel Silva’s A Death in Cornwall
B.A. Shapiro’s Metropolis
Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot
Lisa Scottoline’s Eternal
B.A. Shapiro’s The Collector’s Apprentice
David Biro’s This Magnificent Dappled Sea
Daniel Silva’s The Collector
Margalit Fox’s The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum
James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller
Pam Jenoff’s The Orphan’s Tale
Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living
Daniel Silva’s The Other Woman
Talia Carner’s The Third Daughter
Dara Horn’s In the Image
Goldie Goldblum’s On Division
Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink
Dani Shapiro’s The Inheritance
Isabella Hamad’s The Parisian
Evie Grossman’s Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir
Colum McCann’s Apeirogon
Daniel Silva’s The Order