Our Featured Speaker
Elizabeth Berg
Our featured speaker is New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth Berg. She is the author of many bestselling novels, including Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. She adapted The Pull of the Moon into a play that enjoyed sold-out performances in Chicago and Indianapolis. Berg's work has been published in thirty countries, and three of her novels have been turned into television movies. She is the founder of Writing Matters, a quality reading series dedicated to serving the author, audience, and community. She teaches one-day writing workshops and is a popular speaker at venues around the country. Some of her most popular Facebook postings have been collected in Make Someone Happy and Still Happy. She lives outside Chicago.
"Before I became a writer, I was a registered nurse for ten years, and that was my 'school' for writing-taking care of patients taught me a lot about human nature, about hope and fear and love and loss and regret and triumph and especially about relationships-all things that I tend to focus on in my work."
-Elizabeth Berg
Read Together Selected Book: The Story of Arthur Truluv
For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life.
Eighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who visits the cemetery to escape the other kids at school. One afternoon she joins Arthur-a gesture that begins a surprising friendship between two lonely souls. Moved by Arthur's kindness and devotion, Maddy gives him the nickname "Truluv." As Arthur's neighbor Lucille moves into their orbit, the unlikely trio band together and, through heartache and hardships, help one another rediscover their own potential to start anew.
Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age.
"Berg's writing is to literature what Chopin's études are to music-measured, delicate, and impossible to walk away from until their completion."
-Entertainment Weekly
Purchase the selected Read Together book for a $10 donation. Books can be picked up at the Literacy Coalition in Boynton Beach or shipped for an additional $4.00 per book for postage and handling fees.
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2022 Read Together Book-Pickup
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The 2022 Book Selection
What are you reading? We're reading The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg for the 20th Anniversary of Read Together Palm Beach County, a "one-book, one-community" adult reading campaign.
Get a copy of the Read Together book for a $10 donation. Books can be picked up at the Literacy Coalition in Boynton Beach during regular business hours.
2022 Read Together Book-Mailed
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The 2022 Book Selection
What are you reading? We're reading The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg for the 20th Anniversary of Read Together Palm Beach County, a "one-book, one-community" adult reading campaign.
Get a copy of the Read Together book for a $10 donation. Books can be shipped for an additional $4.00 fee per book for postage and handling fees.
Night of Miracles book
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The 2nd Book in the "Mason" Series
Limited quantities of this book will be available to purchase for a $10 donation at the Love of Literacy Luncheon on April 1, 2022 in the lobby of the Kravis Center. Here is a brief description:
"Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn't know how to bake but she needs to keep her mind off a big decision she sorely regrets.
When a new family moves in next door and tragedy strikes, Lucille begins to look out for Lincoln, their son. Lincoln's parents aren't the only ones in town facing hard choices and uncertain futures. In these difficult times, the residents of Mason come together and find the true power of community-just when they need it the most."
The Confession Club book
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The 3rd Book in the "Mason" Series
Limited quantities of this book will be available to purchase for a $10 donation at the Love of Literacy Luncheon on April 1, 2022 in the lobby of the Kravis Center. Here is a brief description:
"When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings-talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine-abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.
They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn't be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to handle alone. The club offers exactly the kind of support they need to help them make some difficult decisions.
The Confession Club is charming, heartwarming, and inspiring. And as in the previous books that take place in Mason, readers will find friendship, community, and kindness on full display."
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