This month's book is Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray. Copies of the book are generally available one month prior to the meeting and are located near the Reference Desk. Group members can call the Reference Department at 781-721-7171 x320 to have a copy reserved for themselves.
Join us for a special cinematic experience! Pianist Richard Hughes will take us back to a time when Nickelodeon theatres showed black & white flickers to the accompaniment of live piano. After an introductory talk about silent movie mood music, Richard will provide live piano accompaniment to a screening of The Cameraman, starring Buster Keaton.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder. After Jim O'Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital's chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O'Connell's life's calling.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. Tony Corsotino of Winchester Public Library will lead the discussion of “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Dr. Atul Gawande. This 2014 non-fiction bestseller addresses end-of-life care, hospice care and suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. Dr. Gawande practices general and endocrine medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky amd Daniel Ziblatt America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Culpability by Bruce Holsinger. When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss A Flower Traveled in my Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss.
