Books and Brews

Please register through the library's website: https://berlinpeck.org/events/2026-10-books-and-brews/ Join us at Coles Road Brewing to discuss Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor. Contact the library for a copy of the book. Drinks are available for purchase, but there is no charge to attend the book club. Attendees are welcome to bring their own dinner or a snack to share. No outside drinks. About the Book In this searing epistolary novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power. Originally published in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an international sensation. Credited with exposing the dangers of Nazism to American readers early on, it is also a scathing indictment of fascist movements around the world and a harrowing exposé of the power of the pen as a weapon. A powerful and eloquent work of historical fiction about the consequences of a friendship—and society—poisoned by extremism, Address Unknown remains hauntingly and painfully relevant today.