Chippewa Falls Public Library

The Huntress by Kate Quinn Monday, December 8, 6:00 PM Nina Markova always dreamt of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she joins the Night Witches, a female bomber regiment. Stranded behind enemy lines, she becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi […]

Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey Monday, January 12, 6:00 PM A struggling single mother in Alaska, Birdie, finds solace and love with the reclusive Arthur in his remote wilderness life, but as she embraces this idyllic escape, she uncovers his dark secret and the unforgiving nature of the wild. Black Woods, Blue Sky is […]

Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny Monday, February 9, 6:00 PM Alexei Navalny began writing his memoir Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total […]

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Monday, March 9, 6:00 PM Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism. Although subtitled A Novel Without a Hero, the novel follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the […]

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn Monday, April 13, 6:00 PM In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. When a shocking act of violence tears apart the house, the Briar Club women must decide […]

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer Monday, May 11, 6:00 pm A New Yorker staff writer examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at the United […]