Book Group Selections for June and July

Did you know we have a Book Group?

The UU-HNL “Page Turners” meet on Zoom the 2^nd Wednesdays of each month from 4:00 – 5:30 pm.  We read a wide selection of both fiction and non-fiction with the requirement that the book either be available in the library or very inexpensive used. To join our zoom discussion email James Skouge.

Selections for coming months:

JUNE 10, 2026 (2nd Wed of month)

“An immense world : how animals sense Earth’s amazing secrets,” by Ed Yong
A thrilling tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Ed Yong. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage … not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”

JULY 8, 2026 (2nd Wed of month)

“Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel,” by Allison Pataki
An inspiring work of  historical fiction book about the 19th-century writer, activist, and Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, who was a central figure in American intellectual circles but is often overlooked. Young, beautiful, and brilliant, Margaret Fuller becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists. She inspires Louisa May Alcott, sparks Nathaniel Hawthorne to create Hester Prynne, and forms close bonds with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Margaret defies societal conventions as an activist for women’s rights and a champion for humanity.