Programming

The last book club selection for the year will be discussed on Thursday, October 23. It is The Witchery of Archery by Maurice Thompson. Written in 1878, this was the first […]

  Please join us for the first Hoosier Authors Book Club of 2026. To begin the year, we will be reading and discussing John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis. Books are available to […]

  Kurt Vonnegut’s classic humor and humanist perspective shines through in If This Isn't Nice, What Is?, a collection of witty and candid commencement speeches advising graduates to embrace life’s simple […]

  Set across one week and culminating in a shocking act of violence, The Rabbit Hutch chronicles a group of people looking for ways to live in a dying city, […]

Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker was a dazzling cultural icon whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem cultural scene. After inheriting her mother’s pioneering hair care business, A’Lelia became America’s first high-profile Black heiress and a patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her New York homes, where she hosted luminaries including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, and W.E.B. Du Bois—figures who shaped African American history and culture during the Roaring Twenties.

Set during the Tudor dynasty period in the late 15th and 16th centuries of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of old King Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has arranged for her to wed neighboring King Louis XII of France and demands his sister put the House of Tudor first, threatening, "You will marry France and I will give you a wedding present – Charles Brandon's head!"