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Book Club
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
November 25, 7 pm
Discussion Leader: Katie Pyne
“A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.” (Good Reads Summary Description)    
Please contact Katie Pyne or Roger Steinke for additional information about the Book Club.  A copy of the Featured Book of the Month is available in the First Lutheran Church Library.  Please join us!
November 2025 Library News
This month’s library table books are about Africa. 
Featured Book: Lessons in Hope: a New Era for Maasai Women in Tanzania by Juliet Cutler.  Celebrating Operation Boot Strap Africa’s 60th anniversary, the book presents a stunning testament to a group of 20 MaaSAE Girls Lutheran Secondary School Graduates who are claiming their voices and shaping a future of lasting change. 

November 1st 1:00-3:00 PM

Lytle House (Park at Bothell Landing)
Bothell Historical Museum Presents: Early Bothell Churches. 
Bible Hill of Bothell: First Lutheran Church, Bothell Methodist Church, Swedish Lutheran Church, St. Brendan Catholic Church. All are welcome!  
Check it out!
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