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more infoJoin us for a discussion of The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise on June 26 at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente-both in love with Ana-she finds a way to get there.more info
more infoThe Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Evelyn's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to raising her six sons and four daughters.
Join us for a discussion of this book on Tuesday, July 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sun Room.
more infoJoin us for a discussion of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Tuesday, June 19, 6:30 p.m. Sun Room
On Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m., following an introduction by State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, journalist and First Lady of Colorado Helen Thorpe will speak at Schlow about Just Like Us, her riveting, award-winning account of four high school students whose lives are impacted – and even defined – by the issue of immigration status.more info
An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente-both in love with Ana-she finds a way to get there.more info
Just Like Us takes readers on a compelling journey with four young Mexican-American women who have lived in the U.S. since childhood. Exploring not only the women's personal life stories, this book also delves deep into an American subculture and the complex and controversial politics that surround the issue of immigration.more infoHelen Thorpe will speak in the Community Room, April 5 at 7 p.m.
Join us for a discussion of this book on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.more infoJoin us for a discussion of this book on Tuesday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.more infoThe Book Thief is the 2012 Centre County Reads Book.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she's privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father's detachment, her mother's transgression, her brother's increasing retreat from the world.more info
