This program will take place over-the-phone as well as in-person at our Glenview office. 

Please direct all program inquiries and RSVPs to Melissa Wittenberg at T: (847) 510-2060 or melissa.wittenberg@chicagolighthouse.org.

CALL-IN INSTRUCTIONS: After you RSVP for any/all programs that you’d like to participate in, here’s how to call into each of the programs – we will use the same call-in number for all programs: To join any of the programs over-the-phone, dial 872-242-7995. It will then ask you to enter the Conference ID  737 107 407 followed by #. It will ask if you are the meeting organizer and since you are not, continue waiting and shortly after that you will be admitted into the program.

Most participants will use the free Talking Books player. The audio book player will be mailed to you at no cost, as well as all audio books. We can help you complete an application if you are not yet enrolled in the program. Please RSVP to Melissa in advance at: (847) 510-2060.

This month, we will discuss the novel, This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, listening time, 14.5 hours. TBBS book #DB102149. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he & his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, & a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi & a place to call their own. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown & cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers & traveling faith healers to displaced families & lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, & makes us whole. 

RSVP at: (847) 510-2060.