St. Peter’s Book Club

The book club meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm in the Chapter Room, or via Zoom. Contact BJ Scarborough for the Zoom information.

June 24: “Rogue Justice” by Stacey Abrams

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis.

July 22: “James” by Percival Everett

A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. This month’s book discussion is in partnership with the Beloved Community group. An ice cream social will follow!

August 26: “A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey Of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey” by Jonathan Meiburg

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.

September 23: To Kill A Labrador: A Marcia Banks and Buddy Mystery (The Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries) by Kassandra Lamb

Training service dogs shouldn't be dangerous...
Marcia likes to think of herself as a normal person, even though she has a rather abnormal vocation. She trains service dogs for military veterans with PTSD.

And when the former Marine owner of her first trainee is accused of murdering his wife, and Marcia gets sucked into an even more abnormal avocation–amateur sleuth. Called in to dog-sit the Labrador service dog, Buddy, she’s outraged that his veteran owner is being presumed guilty until proven innocent. With Buddy’s help, she tries to uncover the real killer.

October 28: “First to Die” by James Patterson

Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series.

November 25: “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by” Shelby Van Pelt

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively listenable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

January 27: “One Day, Everyone will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar EL Akkad

This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the United States, in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets; the consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.