A Sampling of New Books!

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Steppin Out Book Club will be featured in the Chicago Tribune's Printer's Row Suburban Book Club column! Keep an eye out for this exciting news coming soon!

"Steppin Out" to be Featured in
the Chicago Tribune
Printer's Row Book Clubs Column!

Erica Bauermeister's National Bestseller The School of Essential Ingredients is our next read for the month of January. This "delicious" tale is about eight students that meet once a month on a Monday evening at Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Like appetizers on a plate each character in the story is a rich, flavorful, and essential ingredient to this "exquisitely written and heartbreakingly delicious. It's a luscious slice of life...and you will enjoy every bite." - Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times Bestselling Author. Bring your appetite ladies this is our annual dinner party, so perfect an evening to celebrate this delectible story.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was the selection for our November book club gathering. As reveiwed by New York Times book reviewer Lisa Margonelli writesIn “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot introduces us to the “real live woman,” the children who survived her, and the interplay of race, poverty, science and one of the most important medical discoveries of the last 100 years. Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace. She also confronts the spookiness of the cells themselves, intrepidly crossing into the spiritual plane on which the family has come to understand their mother’s continued presence in the world.

The Imortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

A somewhat troubling, yet facinating story was the focus of our November book club meeting. Here the New York Times book reviewer margonelli introduces the story.