BRUNCH BOOK CLUB

Saturday, Nov. 11, 11am-12pm

The Last Masterpiece: A Novel of World War II Italy, by Laura Morelli 

Join us for a lively discussion of this historical fiction best-seller! Coffee and pastries provided. Grab a copy using our online catalog. (This title is also available as an ebook).

In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery.

When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world’s greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands.

But as Italy turns from ally to enemy and Hitler’s plan to destroy irreplaceable monuments and works of art becomes frighteningly clear, each woman’s race against the clock—and against one another—might demand more than they were prepared to give. 

The Last Masterpiece takes readers on a heart-pumping adventure up the Italian peninsula.

Inspired by the incredible true story of the Monuments Women, the Fifth Army WACs, and the looted Florentine art collections during World War II, the latest historical novel by USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli plunges readers into the heart of war-torn Italy. 

WINTER BOTANICAL LUMINARIES 

Wednesday, Nov. 29, 4pm-6pm

Create a winter-themed paper lantern and use pressed botanicals to decorate it. For the Winter Botanicals we will mostly use evergreen leaves, but you are welcome to bring other flowers and leaves of your own finding.  They look beautiful with a tea light.