06/09/2026
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THE KISS QUOTIENT by HELEN HOANG
9th September 6:30pm
Synopsis:
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchasesâa job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It doesnât help that Stella has Aspergerâs and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practiceâwith a professional. Which is why she hires es**rt Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner canât afford to turn down Stellaâs offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson planâfrom foreplay to more-than-missionary positionâŚ
Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things heâs making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logicâŚ
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FUN HOME by ALISON BECHDEL
23rd September 6:30pm
Synopsis:
Meet Alisonâs father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the familyâs Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
