Do you have a list of books that you keep meaning to read but don't?  Here is your chance!  Join us in discussing great books and great ideas.  Each year, we select books from those submitted based on a theme.  

Scholar Moms is a year-long discussion group, running from September through June, and meets on Thursday evenings at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST, 8:00 pm CST, 7:00 pm MST).  Discussions run about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

Course Cost - $100.00.
Early Bird Special - $35.00 (ends Sept 18th)

Register for Scholar Moms  here or email [email protected]

To find out more or if you would like to try it out, please contact us here
"In a democracy, we must discharge the responsibilities of free men.  Liberal education is here an indispensable means to this end.  It not only makes men of us by cultivating our minds, but it frees our minds by discipling them.  Without free minds, we cannot act like free men."  Mortimer Adler

Description

In Scholar Moms we will practice reading deeply, growing scholar skills,  looking for patterns and connections,  writing about what we learn and discussing our ideas with others.

This discussion group is based on active participation.  Moms talking with moms while reading great books and great ideas.   

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-Abigail Adams
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Live Discussion Equipment: 
You'll need Internet access and a microphone. 
A webcam is optional but strongly encouraged. 

2026-2027 Reading List

Sep 3 - The Bet — Anton Chekhov  (printable version here)
Sep 24 - There, there by Tommy Orange
Oct 8 - Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
Oct 29 - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin (printable version here)
Nov 5 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Dec 3 -  The Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle
Jan 7 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (printable version here)
Jan 14 -Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - first half    [Recommend Ellworth Translation  (Maquet Translation eBook)]
Feb 4 - Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (printable version here)
Feb 18- Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Mar 4 - Invictus by William Earnest Henley (printable version here)  &
            The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt (full speech: printable version here)
Mar 18 -*Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Part 1 & 2  (Free eBook)
Apr 1 - Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Part 3 & 4
Apr 15 - King Lear by William Shakespeare (Free eBook)
May 13 -  Enchiridion by Epictetus (printable version here)
May 20 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner