Bag Lunch Book Group

All members of the Saint Anselm College community are invited to attend a book discussion of "The Dream Hotel" by Laila Lalami.

Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Circulation Desk.

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. 
Location: Library Classroom, upper level of Geisel.

Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches to the book group meeting.

Description:

"Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days.

Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are" (Goodreads.com).

The Geisel Library will host its 36th Annual Book Sale Friday, October 2 - Sunday, October 4, 2026. The book sale includes thousands of books across academic disciplines and genres, fiction and non-fiction alike. This year's sale includes extensive offerings in literature and drama, history, arts, religion and so much more. Also on sale are DVDs, VHS tapes and music CDs.

Hours

Pricing

Cash and credit card accepted

• $1 paperbacks and audiovisual materials
• $2 hardcover books

*A separate specials table will be set up for unique titles and large book sets with separate pricing.

Bag Lunch Book Group

All members of the Saint Anselm College community are invited to attend a book discussion of "Salt Houses" by Hala Alyan.

Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Circulation Desk 4 weeks prior to the event.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 
Location: Library Classroom, upper level of Geisel.

Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches to the book group meeting.

Description:

"On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.

Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again" (Goodreads.com).

Bag Lunch Book Group

All members of the Saint Anselm College community are invited to attend a book discussion of "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.

Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Circulation Desk 4 weeks prior to the event.

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2026 
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 
Location: Library Classroom, upper level of Geisel.

Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches to the book group meeting.

Description:

"Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.

With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction" (Goodreads.com).