Legally Reading Book Club

The Injustice of Place by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Schaefer and Timothy Nelson

Our next selection is "The Injustice of Place" by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer and Timothy Nelson. 

The Legally Reading book club will meet virtually until further notice. Videoconference information will go out prior to each meeting to those who sign up.

For more information, contact Library Director Gail Wechsler at 314-622-4470 or gwechsler@llastl.org.  

Complete list of upcoming books and dates: 
 

Here is information about our remaining book selections for the 2024-25 year of Legally Reading:

Tuesday April 15--The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn J.Edin, H. Luke Shaefer and Timothy Nelson

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed  "$2.00 a Living on Almost Nothing in America."

Tuesday June 10--He/She/They: How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation.

NEW-JUST ADDED: Special add-on book in June for Juneteenth 

Tuesday June 17, On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.