Our Book Club
Our next books:
| Title | Author | Meeting date and time |
| The Little Liar | Mitch Albom | July 1, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb | Alan Hornblum | July 29, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| Please note that the dates are either the 3rd or 4th Wednesday of the month. Dates were adjusted to accommodate for holidays. Some dates are Thursdays, as noted. |
Books that we already read:
| Title | Author | Meeting date |
| The Art Forger |
Barbara A. Shapiro | April 26, 2023 |
| All About Me | Mel Brooks | May 24, 2023 |
| We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | June 28, 2023 |
| The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish | September 27, 2023 |
| Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | October 25, 2023 |
| The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville |
Clare Mulley | December 27, 2023 |
| The Matchmakers Gift | Lynda Cohen Loigman | January 24, 2024 |
| The Dressmakers of Auschwitz | Lucy Adlington | February 28, 2024 |
| Madam | Debbie Applegate | May 1 , 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult | May 22, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| This Magnificent Dappled Sea | David Biro | June 26, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker | Barry Sonnenfeld | September 25, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Song Yet Sung | James McBride | October 23, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Moonflower Murders: A Novel | Anthony Horowitz | December 4, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | January 22, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | February 26, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Mazel | Rebecca Goldstein | April 23, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Book Spy | Alan Hlad | May 28, 2025 7:30 pm |
| Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | June 25, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| The House is on Fire | Rachel Beanland | Oct. 22, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century | David Laskin | Nov. 17, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love | Dani Shapiro | Jan 14, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| Lilli de Jong | Janet Benton | Feb. 25, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| Opening Doors : The Unlikely Alliance Between The Irish And The Jews In America | Hasia R. Diner | March 25, 2026, 7:30 pm |
Book Club Meeting
The Little Liar
by Mitch Albom
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable work of World War II historical fiction about truth and lies set during the Holocaust.
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,” where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.
But when the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into a boxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them—and everyone he knows and loves—to their doom at Auschwitz.
Nico escapes—but he never tells the truth again.
In The Little Liar, a gripping family saga, Mitch Albom examines the human repercussions of deception by interweaving the stories of Nico, who yearns for forgiveness; his older brother, Sebastian, who vows revenge against him; Fannie, the girl who must choose between them; and Udo Graf, the Nazi officer who forever changed their lives with his lies.
Through the war years, the concentration camps, and the decades that follow, Albom reveals the consequences of each person’s honesty and dishonesty in this powerful story of survival, bringing them back to where it all started in a staggering climax worthy of the best of Albom’s internationally embraced stories.
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb
by Alan Hornblum
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assigned to be physicist Klaus Fuchs’s “handler” and ultimately conveyed sheaves of stolen information about the Manhattan Project from Los Alamos to Russian agents. He is literally the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal. Yet among his coworkers, fellow prisoners at Lewisburg Penitentiary, and even those in the FBI, Gold earned respect, admiration, and affection.
In The Invisible Harry Gold, journalist and historian Allen Hornblum paints a surprising portrait
of this notorious yet unknown figure. Through interviews with many individuals who knew
Gold and years of research into primary documents, Hornblum has produced a gripping account
of how a fundamentally decent and well-intentioned man helped commit the greatest
scientific theft of the twentieth century.
Let us know if you have other titles to recommend written by Jewish authors or are about Jewish content.
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