Co-op Member Book Club
Support local and save!
Franklin Community Co-op member-owners receive discounts every month on new book selections at Federal Street Books.
Save 10% when you purchase 1-4 copies and 15% when you purchase 5 or more, perfect for a book club.
You can find your member-owner discount code in the member portal or email Peg at: peg.pucino@franklincommunity.coop.
March
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange, $28.99 hardcover
Set in Colorado, 1864. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There–warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts–asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
April
Be a Revolution
by Ijeoma Oluo, $26.99 hardcover
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World–and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems–like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more–she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity.
May
Poverty, By America
by Matthew Desmond, $19.99 paperback
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.