Current LLC Special Events:
Lunch and a Book Fall 2026
Add these selections, chosen by the group, to your summer reading list. Dates and details for each discussion will be announced at a later date.
- The Lincoln Highway, A Novel. By Amor Towles
In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. - The Berry Pickers, A Novel. By Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters is of Mi’kmaq ancestry, an Indigenous people in Nova Scotia. Her debut novel centers on a family of seven who travel south to Maine each summer to pick blueberries and apples and pull potatoes from the ground. Their housing conditions are migrant-poor, but others arrive each summer, become friends and make money. - Theo of Golden. By Allen Levi
A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.