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—Dr. Sue Morter, author of the bestseller THE ENERGY CODES: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life

—L.L. Barkat, author of EARTH TO POETRY: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self & Other Care Challenge

—Harini Nagendra, professor of ecology, public speaker on nature and sustainability, and author of NATURE IN THE CITY: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future and THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB

—Sarah Layden, author of IMAGINE YOUR LIFE LIKE THIS and TRIP THROUGH YOUR WIRES

—Michael Decter, author of THE FULCRUM

—Barbara Shoup, author of ABOUT GRACE and A COMMOTION IN YOUR HEART: Notes on Writing and Life

August 2025 Bookaccino Live Signup

June 30, 2025

There is something about the summer that allows me to get a lot of books read. How can I possibly have more time in the summer than I do in the winter? Well, I do save time watering the house plants as they are all outside being watered by the sprinkler system, but I am trying to figure out what else lends itself to more reading time. I seem to have no problem reading beside the pool, or in the pool. I feel like there are fewer distractions. I can even tune out the birds, the squirrels and the chipmunks! There is just a calm that moves over the summer that lets me unwind.

Fiona Davis Book Group Event

B.A. Shapiro, author of The Lost Masterpiece

B.A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-19th-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot --- the one woman in their midst who never got her due --- and the story of Morisot’s great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherited Édouard Manet’s Party on the Seine, a painting that completely upends her life. Tamara discovers a long-hidden family history replete with unanswered questions: How had it been stolen by the Nazis? How had the painting managed to survive three disasters that destroyed every other artwork around it? And why had she never known about her ancestor, Berthe Morisot? As the painting begins to metamorphose into darker and more terrifying versions of itself, Tamara’s ordinary life is thrown into turmoil.