Kol Rinah & B'nai Amoona Book Group
Book Group meets on the 4th Thursday of the month from 10:00-11:30am by Zoom. We discuss books by Jewish Authors or with Jewish content.
Contact Carol Glick (greatabcr@aol.com) for the monthly ZOOM link.
Upcoming Books & Dates
May 22, 2025:Mother Daughter Traitor Spy:
by Susan Elia MacNeal
June 26, 2025:The Best Strangers in the World:
Stories from a Life Spent Listening
by Ari Shapiro
July 24I Made It Out of Clay: A Novel
Beth Kander
*Author Beth Kander will be joining us virtually!
August 28Button Man: A Novel
Andrew Gross
September 25Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure
Mimi Zieman, MD
October 23Kunstlers in Paradise
Cathleen Schine
November 20
Discuss Jewish Book Festival and Select Future Books
December 18 (Third week due to the holiday)The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
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January 22Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Matti Friedman
Previous Books
April 24, 2025:And Then? And Then? What Else?
by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket
March 27, 2025:The Little Liar:
by Mitch Albom
February 27, 2025:The Matchmaker's Gift:
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
**Jan. 30, 2025:Goyhood by Reuven Fenton.
**We will be joined virtually with author Reuven Fenton.
**We will be joined virtually with author Reuven Fenton.
Dec 26, 2024:The Deadly Scrolls (The Jerusalem Mysteries, 1)
by Ellen Frankel
*Oct 31, 2024Knockout Beauty and Other Afflictions - Marina Rubin
*Note: This is the 5th Thursday of the month due to the holiday.
Sept 26, 2024
Kantika: A Novel - Elizabeth Graver
August 22, 2024Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
July 25, 2024Defending Britta Stein
by Ronald H. Balson
June 27, 2024Hotel Cuba: A Novel
by Aaron Hamburger
May 23, 2024Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
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pr 25, 2024
The Fashion Orphans
by Randy Susan Meyers and M. J. Rose
pr 25, 2024The Fashion Orphans
by Randy Susan Meyers and M. J. Rose
Mar 28, 2024Metropolis: A Novel
by B. A. Shapiro
Feb 22, 2024The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully
by Morrie Schwartz, Rob Schwartz
Jan 25, 2024Signal Fires: A Novel
by Dani Shapiro
Dec 28, 2023The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Novel
by Kristen Harmel
NOVEMBER, 2023 - NO BOOK CLUB MEETING - Jewish Book Festival
Oct 26, 2023Ten Years Gone
by Jonathan Dunsky
Sept 21, 2023One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
by Michael Frank
Aug 24, 2023An Observant Wife: A Novel
by Naomi Ragen
JULY 20, 2023The Book of Jeremiah: A Novel in Stories
by Julie Zuckerman
JUNE 22, 2023Woman on Fire: A Novel
by Lisa Barr
MAY 18, 2023
An Unorthodox Match: A Novel
by Naomi Ragen
APRIL 27, 2023 
Gangsters vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
by Michael Benson
MARCH 23, 2023 The Book of Lost Names
by Kristen Harmel
February 23, 2023 The Orchard
by Yochi Brandes
January 26, 2023
Park Avenue Summer
by Renee Rosen
December 22, 2022Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by Nora Krug
October 27, 2022
The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
September 22, 2022
The Other Hand
by Andrew Kane
August 25, 2022
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
July 28, 2022
The Three Weissmans of Westport: A Novel
by Cathleen Schine
June 23, 2022Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
by Elyssa Friedland
May 26, 2022
Under the Stretcher
Max Levin
April 28, 2022Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played
by Tovah Feldshuh
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arch 24, 2022
arch 24, 2022The Art of Leaving: A Memoir
by Ayelet Tsabari
February 24, 2022The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
by Steve Leder
January 27, 2022Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Jocheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France
by Maggie Anton
December 23, 2021Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
by Noa Tishby
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ctober 28, 2021
ctober 28, 2021The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl
by Marra B. Gad
September 23, 2021The Lost Boys
by Faye Kellerman
August 26, 2021We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories
by R. L. Maizes We will be joined virtually by the author R. L. Maizes.
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une 24, 2021
une 24, 2021The Lost Shtetl
by Max Gross
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uly 22, 2021
uly 22, 2021All the Rivers: A Novel
by Dorit Rabinyan
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ay 27, 2021
ay 27, 2021The Face Tells the Secret
by Jane Bernstein
April 22, 2021Eli's Promise
by Ronald H. Balson
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arch 18, 2021
arch 18, 2021Still Foolin’ 'Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?
by Billy Crystal.
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ebruary 25, 2021
ebruary 25, 2021The Book of V.: A Novel
by Anna Solomon
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nuary 28, 2021
nuary 28, 2021Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
by Jeffrey Rosen
December 17, 2020The Weight of Ink
by Rachel Kadish
October 22, 2020A Rabbi’s Daughter
by Avigail Graetz
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eptember 24, 2020
eptember 24, 2020On Division
by Goldie Goldbloom
August 27, 2020Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
July 23, 2020Windy City Blues
by Renee Rosen
June 25, 2020Green: A Novel
by Sam Graham-Felsen
Thu, October 30 2025
8 Cheshvan 5786
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Phone: 314-727-1747
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Phone: 314-727-1747
Thu, October 30 2025 8 Cheshvan 5786