Dewey’s Readers
"The Non-fiction That Reads Like Fiction" Book Group
Meets the 3rd Wednesday of every Month @ 4:00 PM
Reader's Choice
Wednesday, December 17th
4:00 p.m.
Green Room
Join the Dewey's Group as they discuss their favorite reads of 2025.
Mailman:
My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia & Finally Finding Home
by Stephen Starring Grant
Wednesday, January 21st
4:00 p.m.
Green Room
In this engaging memoir, Stephen Grant shares his journey from being laid off during the pandemic to becoming a rural mail carrier in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Facing personal challenges, including a cancer diagnosis, Grant finds himself reconnecting with his roots and discovering a new sense of purpose through his work with the United States Postal Service (USPS).
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time
How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Guilded Age, Partied her way to Power
by Jennifer Wright
Wednesday, February 18th
4:00 p.m.
Green Room
In Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time, readers will learn all about how Fish and her friends shaped the line of history, exerting their influence on business, politics, family relationships, and social change through elaborate social gatherings. In a time when women couldn’t even own property, let alone run for office, if women wanted any of the things men got outside the home—glory, money, attention, social networking, leadership roles—they did it by throwing a decadent soiree or chairing a cotillion.
