SAGEUMPI - Seniors Achieving Greater Education

Senior College membership required. 

Jan 21 – At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer Fleming. It’s Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of police – plan to enjoy it with their baby boy. On their list: visiting Santa, decorating the tree, and attending church. But when a beloved holiday parade is crashed by white supremacists, Clare and Russ find themselves sucked into a parallel world of militias, machinations, and murder.

Feb 18 – Threads of Deception by our own Beverly D Knowles.  This is her second book, and we are so proud she is a member of our Book Club. “What could possibly be cannonballing toward the Abbotts? Curious about a newspaper clipping that details an event unknown to Elizabeth and Charlie, the retired teacher and pilot are drawn to a midcoastal Maine inn only to return home to their Victorian. Underlying dilemmas weigh upon them, including the preservation of their 1870s spirit-inhabited Victorian and the disappearance of Jennie and Rebecca several years ago. And then there are the clairvoyant ones as well as Mrs. Abbott’s former students.

Mar 18 – Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray. “…But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House.”