Book Group

Meet other book lovers in Augustana’s Book Group. Members choose the books and meet the third Monday of every month at 11:15 a.m. (bring your lunch) at Augustana. Please join us to laugh, share wisdom and thoughts, and make new friends. No commitment, just drop in and join the fellowship!

November Book Group

Join us Monday, November 19 at 11:45 in the Anna Paulson Room to discuss Maisie Dobbs (Book 1 of the Maisie Dobbs series) by Jacqueline Winspear.

Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education.

The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, but ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive.

In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade. (Amazon).