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COLETTE LAFIA
Seeking Surrender
Thursday, May 7 at 7 PM

Meet Colette Lafia, who shares her friendship in letters with a silent monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived, in her new book, Seeking Surrender.

Lafia, a spiritual director and retreat leader, and Brother Rene, a Trappist monk, corresponded during Lafia's struggle with infertility, insomnia, the loss of her sister, the declining health and eventual death of her father, and her role as caregiver. Brother Rene's compassion and guidance throughout these challenges - and Lafia's responses - provide readers with the inspiration to surrender to God in their own struggles.

PATRICIA PARK
Re Jane
Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM

In her debut novel, Patricia Park provides a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, featuring Jane Re - a half-Korean, half-American orphan from Flushing, Queens.

THUPTEN JINPA
The Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
Thursday, May 14 at 7 PM

In his new book, the highly acclaimed longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us how we fear compassion, and how being compassionate can bring us greater health and happiness.

CELESTE NG
Everything I Never Told You
Monday, May 18 at 7 PM

We are pleased to welcome Celeste Ng, who will read from her exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.

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