LUNCH.COM
Lunch.Com meets every Friday at 1:00 p.m. for lunch. Contact Sherry Anderson for a lunch reservation.
GREAT DECISIONS
Great Decisions study group meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday at 7 P.M. at the home of Lois Guendel. All AAUW members are invited to participate.
Members of the group read a chapter in the Great Decisions Study Guide in preparation, and a member leads a discussion of it. Chapters for this year are:
- Energy Geopolitics
- War Crimes
- China and the U.S.
- Economic Warfare
- Politics in Latin America
- Global Famine
- Iran at a Crossroads
- Climate Migration
BOOK CLUB
¡Adelante! Book of the Month Club usually meets on the fourth Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. The May meeting will take place on the 3th Monday, May 20 2024, at 5:30 pm. The location: Viet Huong on Old Monrovia Rd. For more information, contact: Karen Rudiger, Patricia Smith, or June Wilson. For Zoom meetings, please register with June Wilson a few days before the meeting.
Click here for the ¡Adelante! 2023-2024 Final Reading List.
2023-2024 ¡Adelante! Reading List
September Book
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, Chung heard the story of her adoption as a comforting prepackaged myth. As she grew up – facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from – she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.
October Book
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture.
November Book
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
December Book
Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew by Lisa McNair
Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement.
January Book
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won.
February Book
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
A sweeping historical novel, Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker illuminates the extraordinary relationship the two women shared, beginning in the hallowed halls of the White House during the trials of the Civil War and enduring almost, but not quite, to the end of Mrs. Lincoln’s days.
March Book
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond’s first book since his Pulitzer Prize winning Evicted is not just a study of who is poor in the world’s richest country. It also asks why. Crown published Poverty, by America on March 21, 2023. According to Crown, Desmond documents how the wealthy harm the poor, knowingly and unknowingly.
April Book
Master Slave Husband Wife: A Startling Tale of Disguise to Escape Slavery by Ilyon Woo
Ellen Craft was an enslaved woman and seamstress living in Macon, Georgia, in the 1840’s. She was given to her half-sister as a birthday present. In her early 20’s, Craft married an enslaved man, William Craft, a skilled cabinetmaker. Because they were afraid to have children that could be taken away from them, they came up with a bold plan: Ellen would disguise herself as a wealthy White man who was traveling with “his” enslaved person: her husband, William. They would escape to the North in plain sight.
May Book
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research that is Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating – and sorely necessary – new science of women. As Saini takes listeners on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.
June Book
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizar
In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history.
July Book
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and What They Mean for America’s Future by Jean M. Twenge, Phd
The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents – and What They Mean for America’s Future
August Book
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain
A blend of social commentary, biography and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice.