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    • June 09, 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
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    • 13

    Join this evening women's book club! And no, you don’t have to be a "bad girl" to join the group. This group will focus on books with female authors and unique female protagonists. In depth and honest opinions are encouraged. You don’t even have to finish the book to join in on the discussion. Indulgent beverages and desserts will be served. 

    Monday, June 9

    6:00–8:00 pm

    Facilitator: Andrea Azar

    Condoleezza Rice's life began in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s, a place and time where black people lived in a segregated parallel universe away from their white neighbors. She grew up during the violent and shocking 1960s, when bloodshed became a part of daily life in the South. Rice's portrait of her parents, John and Angelena, highlights their ambitions and frustrations and shows how much they sacrificed to give their beloved only child the best chance for success. Rice also discusses the challenges of being a precocious child who was passionate about music, ice skating, history, and current affairs. Her memoir reveals with vivid clarity how her early experiences sowed the seeds of her political beliefs and helped her become a vibrant, successful woman. — Goodreads

    Register by 6/7

    Minimum Registration: 3

    Other Summer 2025 Bad Girl Books:

    May: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

    July: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

    August: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes

    • June 11, 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT)
    • Reif Gallery
    • 13

    by Dawn Turner

    Wednesday, June 11

    10:00–11:30 am

    All women are invited to these discussions to share observations, enthusiasm, insights and the pure enjoyment of reading.

    They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South.

    These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks’ business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures. And then fate intervenes, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There’s heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder.

    Three Girls from Bronzeville is a memoir that chronicles Dawn’s attempt to find answers. It’s a celebration of sisterhood, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption. — Goodreads

    Register by June 9

    Minimum Registration: 4

    Cancellation & Refund Policy

    Paid enrollment in a Womanspace class must be cancelled in order for the student to be eligible for a refund. A refund (minus a $10 non-refundable deposit, minus the 4% service fee) will be granted according to the following:

    • If you cancel up to 7 calendar days prior to a program or event, your payment, less the non-refundable deposit and service fee, will be refunded.
    • If you cancel 4 days in advance, you may have your payment, less the non-refundable deposit, transferred to another program.
    • In the last 3 days, there are no refunds.
    • Womanspace reserves the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment by the registration deadline, in which case, full refunds will be made.
    • July 09, 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT)
    • Reif Gallery
    • 15

    by Piper Huguley

    Wednesday, July 9

    10:00–11:30 am

    All women are invited to these discussions to share observations, enthusiasm, insights and the pure enjoyment of reading.

    The incredible, true, untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress designer, a Black woman who made some of the most famous dresses of all time, only to be forgotten by history.

    Raised in Jim Crow Alabama, Ann learned the art of sewing from her mother and her grandmother, a former slave, who are the most talented seamstresses in the state. After Ann elopes, her dreams of becoming a celebrated designer seem to be put on hold. But then a wealthy Tampa socialite sees Ann’s talent and offers her an amazing opportunity — the chance to sew and design clothing for Florida’s society elite. Ann escapes her abusive husband and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. — Goodreads

    Register by July 7

    Minimum Registration: 4

    Cancellation & Refund Policy

    Paid enrollment in a Womanspace class must be cancelled in order for the student to be eligible for a refund. A refund (minus a $10 non-refundable deposit, minus the 4% service fee) will be granted according to the following:

    • If you cancel up to 7 calendar days prior to a program or event, your payment, less the non-refundable deposit and service fee, will be refunded.
    • If you cancel 4 days in advance, you may have your payment, less the non-refundable deposit, transferred to another program.
    • In the last 3 days, there are no refunds.
    • Womanspace reserves the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment by the registration deadline, in which case, full refunds will be made.
    • July 14, 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
    • Reif Gallery
    • 14

    Join this evening women's book club! And no, you don’t have to be a "bad girl" to join the group. This group will focus on books with female authors and unique female protagonists. In depth and honest opinions are encouraged. You don’t even have to finish the book to join in on the discussion. Indulgent beverages and desserts will be served. 

    Monday, July 14

    6:00–8:00 pm

    Facilitator: Andrea Azar

    Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

    The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They'll bring the fight to you.

    In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity. — Goodreads

    Register by 7/12

    Minimum Registration: 3

    Other Summer 2025 Bad Girl Books:

    May: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

    June: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me

    August: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes

    • August 11, 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
    • Reif Gallery
    • 14

    Join this evening women's book club! And no, you don’t have to be a "bad girl" to join the group. This group will focus on books with female authors and unique female protagonists. In depth and honest opinions are encouraged. You don’t even have to finish the book to join in on the discussion. Indulgent beverages and desserts will be served. 

    Monday, August 11

    6:00–8:00 pm

    Facilitator: Andrea Azar

    While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien, the lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese in Seattle found refuge on Orcas Island and shared her tragic experience by embroidering it.

    As Inara peels back layer upon layer of the centuries of secrets the sleeve holds, her life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core—and force her to make an impossible choice. Should she bring shame to her family and risk everything by telling the truth, or tell no one and dishonor Mei Lien's memory?

    A touching and tender book for fans of Marie Benedict, Susanna Kearsley, and Duncan Jepson, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is a dual-time period novel that explores how a delicate piece of silk interweaves the past and the present, reminding us that today's actions have far reaching implications. — Goodreads

    Register by 8/9

    Minimum Registration: 3

    Other Summer 2025 Bad Girl Books:

    May: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

    June: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me

    July: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

    • August 13, 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT)
    • Reif Gallery
    • 15

    by Kristin Hannah

    Wednesday, August 13

    10:00–11:30 am

    All women are invited to these discussions to share observations, enthusiasm, insights and the pure enjoyment of reading.

    Women can be heroes. In 1965, the world is changing, and Frances “Frankie” McGrath dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

    In war, she meets and becomes one of the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.

    This is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. — Goodreads

    Register by Aug 11

    Minimum Registration: 4

    Cancellation & Refund Policy

    Paid enrollment in a Womanspace class must be cancelled in order for the student to be eligible for a refund. A refund (minus a $10 non-refundable deposit, minus the 4% service fee) will be granted according to the following:

    • If you cancel up to 7 calendar days prior to a program or event, your payment, less the non-refundable deposit and service fee, will be refunded.
    • If you cancel 4 days in advance, you may have your payment, less the non-refundable deposit, transferred to another program.
    • In the last 3 days, there are no refunds.
    • Womanspace reserves the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment by the registration deadline, in which case, full refunds will be made.


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