Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson” with Keishel Williams
Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 14, 2026
In Person | Examine this sharp story of race, class, and pedagogy, told through a resistant child’s voice. Consider how Bambara’s...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Toni Morrison: Volume II with Maia Butler
4 Sessions 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 14, 2026 to July 7, 2027
Online | Move deeper into Morrison’s novels as they unsettle ideas of home, love, and belonging. Explore how memory and community...
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Groups+Workshops
The Gothic Heiresses of Jane Eyre with Mary Anna Evans
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 13 to June 1, 2026
Online | Trace how Brontë’s Gothic heroine echoes through later fiction, from haunted houses to modern retellings of women navigating...
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Groups+Workshops
Crossing the Color Line: Satire and Racecraft in Fiction with Norrell Edwards
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 8 to July 1, 2026
Online | Examine race as a social construct through a satirical lens and unpack how these authors represent Blackness, Whiteness, passing...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Henry James: Volume I with Sheridan Hay
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 8 to April 29, 2026
Online | Begin a yearlong journey into James’s fiction with Daisy Miller and The Lesson of the Master, tracing the...
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Groups+Workshops
Women and Power: Narrative Conflict, Contrast, and Desire with Sheila Kohler
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 6 to June 8, 2026
Online | Immerse yourself in four irresistibly suspenseful books that portray the struggle for power between mothers and daughters...
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Groups+Workshops
The Iliad with Lila Azam Zanganeh
8 Sessions Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT April 4 to July 11, 2026
Online | Enter the heart of epic war as rage, fate, and honor collide—read The Iliad with fresh eyes, uncovering how power...
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Groups+Workshops
Skin Deep: Beauty, Horror, and the Gothic Tradition with Amanda Lehr
4 Sessions Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT April 4 to June 6, 2026
In Person | Interrogate the pursuit of beauty across Gothic fiction, where surface perfection masks decay, obsession, and violence
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Virginia Woolf: Volume II with Anne Fernald
4 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 31 to June 16, 2026
In Person | Embrace the bold middle of Woolf’s career, as she pushes against convention through experiments with form, voice, and satire
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Book Recs
(Self) Discovery
This week’s selection provides much for readers to discover. There are two novels marked by comic genius–one set in the Middle East and one...
