Tuesday Book Club

Join us for this month's book, 'The Small and the Mighty,' by Marie Benedict.

The Tuesday Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of every month. We discuss a wide variety of genres but focus on popular fiction and nonfiction. 

The Small and the Mighty

In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who did not make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.

You will meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave., a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. More than one thing is bombed, and multiple people surprisingly become rich. Some rich with money, and some wealthy with things that matter more.

This is a book about what really made America– and Americans– great. McMahon’s cast of improbable champions will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good and free.

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