Books and Coffee Schedule 2025

Good morning.  It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I send you the  Books and Coffee Schedule for 2025, Season 51.  We will be meeting in Ballroom C of the Harre Union for all sessions which begin at 4 pm CST.  I will contact Barnes and Noble, The Press, and the University Bookstore that this is the lineup so they have these books in stock.  We will be zooming and video recording each session.  If you need access to the video recording contact me at John.Ruff@valpo.edu.

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Here’s that schedule:

Jan. 9, Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name, by Betsy Burow-Flak, English Department
Jan. 16, Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, by John Ruff, English Department
Jan. 23, Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse, by Gretchen Buggeln, Christ College
Jan. 30, Tim Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, by Jesse Curtis, History Department
Feb. 5, Paul Lynch, Prophet Son, by Edward Upton, Christ College
Feb. 13, Jacqueline Jones: No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggle of Boston’s Black Workers In the Civil War Era, by Sara Danger, English Department
Feb. 20,   Bye week
Feb. 27, Percival Everett, James, by Richard Severe, Associate Dean of Arts and Science and English Department

John Ruff
Professor of English