Vote on our next book selection for second quarter.

Hello ladies, I have included a vote feature on the website for the next 5 days to narrow down our next reading selections for the upcoming quarter. In the post you'll find the Title, Author and book overview to assist you with voting on your most popular option. Once voting closes, the book with the most votes will win our Required reading selection and the runner up will be our Optional reading selection. You can vote once per day if you like to help increase your book of choice option of winning. Once voting closes, I will post our selections on the bookshelf feature of the page and you can get started immediately in preparation for our next upcoming session. Thank you all for your continued support!

Flaws and All by Shana Burton
Faith, family, and friendship have always been top priority to lifelong friends Lawson, Reginell, Sullivan, Angel, and Kina, but each one is about to be put to the test during one turbulent year.
Lawson Kerry is a struggling single mother who has finally gotten her life together. Now, a fierce custody battle with her ex threatens to the tear apart everything she's built.
Reginell Kerry is a starry-eyed singer determined to make it to the top of the charts, but will she change her tune when a chance at fame means shedding her clothes and her self-respect?
Sullivan Webb is the pampered wife of a charismatic pastor with political aspirations, but she just might destroy her husband's campaign and their marriage if she can't control her wandering eye.
Angel King has dedicated her life to nursing following the destruction of her marriage. Can she maintain her professionalism when she discovers that her newest patient is the woman who stole her husband?
Kina Battle has had enough of her husband's verbal and physical abuse. When she's pushed to the edge, the situation heads in a deadly direction, and there's no turning back.
Nothing is sacred, all bets are off, and the lives of these ladies will never be the same. Will they have the strength to hold on to their friendships and put their trust in God?

Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore The Goldsteins may look like your typical Carter-era suburban D.C. couple saddled with familiar bourgeois problems: rebellious children, troublesome in-laws, infidelity, and general middle-aged angst. But don't be deceived—as the Goldsteins are—by appearances. Jennifer Gilmore's Something Red is ambitious and provocative, more Molotov cocktail than standard-issue domestic drama, raising profound questions about loyalty, independence, love of family and of country. Set in 1979 and '80, when hostage-taking, grain embargoes, and Olympic boycotting have displaced '60s-style idealism, the story centers on one disillusioned optimist, Dennis Goldstein, who now makes trade deals in Russia for the Department of Agriculture. Dennis may still listen to folk music, but he's also not above chatting occasionally with the CIA; he's forever "haunted by the man he might have been." His wife, Sharon, "embarrassed" that she never acted on her own liberal ideals, cooks obsessively and looks for guidance in an EST-like empowerment group. Son Ben finds his passion in drugs and the Grateful Dead, while slam-dancing daughter Vanessa tries to deny herself all sensual pleasure. Gilmore depicts the sometimes paranoid, sometimes exhilarating zeitgeist of the era in every evocative detail of food and music, but even more astonishing is the uncanny way she captures family in all its messy complexity. Looking at her Russian doll collection, Vanessa wonders whether they "constituted one doll or if they were really 12 different dolls, with separate selves and souls." As intimate secrets meet national events and the comic tragedy unfolds, Dennis faces an inevitable truth—that whatever we feel about our parents' achievements or failures, "we are all living down or living up to a legacy."

Changing the Rules by Sindee LynnSasha Jordan has five simple rules when it comes to men and she's managed to live within them until the morning of her big job interview. That's when she first lays eyes on Dylan Matthews, CFO of the company where she's just been hired. He's everything she's looking for in a man except for one small problem. He violates every one of her rules. Now the rules that were created to keep her from getting hurt could keep her from getting the man of dreams. Dylan Matthews, CFO of Presco Financial, never thought he would find the right woman for him. And being one of Chicago's most eligible bachelors hasn't exactly made it any easier. But from the moment he sees Sasha Jordan rushing towards him he knows there's something about her that he just has to get to know better. Only problem is she's got a rule for everything and wouldn't you know it her number one rule is no dating outside of her race.