Events

IHSI Book Club – April 2026 April 15th – The View from Lake Como by Adriana TrigianiSummaryA transportive, jet-setting story following a woman’s journey to her ancestral land while grappling […]

IHSI Book Club – May 2026 May 20th – The Marble Faun by Nathaniel HawthorneSummaryMarble Faun is a two-volume romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, his final complete novel published prior to […]

IHSI Book Club – June 2026 June 17th – Century by Fred Mustard Stewart*** Read 280 pages or until end of chapter ***SummaryAn entire century is carved into a passionate […]

IHSI Book Club – July 2026 July 15th – Century by Fred Mustard Stewart*** Continued from prior month; read pages 280 to 560 ***SummaryAn entire century is carved into a passionate […]

IHSI Book Club – August 2026 August 19th – Church of Spies by Mark RieblingSummaryThe heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII — often labeled "Hitler's Pope" — was in […]

IHSI Book Club – September 2026 September 16th – The Longest Echo by Eoin DempseySummaryAgainst the backdrop of WWII-ravaged Italy comes a powerful and emotional novel of love, survival, justice, […]

IHSI Book Club – October 2026 October 21st – The Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzetiSummaryAn allegorical novel which reflects on the nature of time and human existence. It follows the […]

IHSI Book Club – November 2026 November 18th – The Gallery by John Horne BurnsSummarySet in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery takes its name from the Galleria Umberto, a […]