Thursday, February 23 at 7pm  *  The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.

Thursday, April 26 * The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collectingin a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Bi-coastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, "The Cookbook Collector" is a novelabout getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can'tfind what we're looking for.