2022-23 Books for Discussion

Discussions to begin at 9:00 am unless noted otherwise.

September 24, 2022 at 9:00 am: Limitless Mind: Learn, Live and Lead Without Boundaries by Jo Boaler

Facilitator: Rush Rodgers & Deborah Wooldridge

 

October 22: Tales of Two Americas, edited by John Freeman

Facilitator: Rush Rogers

Check out this U-Tube discussion and Study Guide by the author.

 

November 19: The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne

Facilitator: Erin Czerniak

 

January 21, 2023: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: A Novel of Chinese Immigration to the Pacific Northwest by Kelli Estes

The Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the US. It was the only major federal legislation to specifically halt immigration for a specific nationality. This historical novel of one woman’s discovery that a family-owned ship returning Chinese to their homeland had dumped the immigrants overboard changes her life and career plans.
Facilitator: Jo Ann Benseler

 

February 18, 2023: Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life without Limits by Emmanuel Acho

Neither setting goals nor accepting the answer, “because that’s the way it’s always been done.”

Facilitator: Deborah Wooldridge

 

March18:  Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid.

For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia.

Facilitator:  Mickey Radtkin

 

May 20: Bittersweet by Susan Cain

Facilitator:  Rush Rodgers

 

June 17:  13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do by Amy Morin
Facilitator: Deborah Wooldridge

July 15:  Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

Facilitator: Rush Rogers and Deborah Wooldridge

 

August 19: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Facilitator: Naykishia Darby