The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is pleased to announce the 2025 Czech ‘Em Out Book Club reads for 2025.
The Czech ‘Em Out Book Club meets on the third Monday of each month with NCSML volunteer Steve Pederson in the Skala Bartizal Library following the reading of each months selected book. All books are available for purchase at the Museum Store.
February 17 — Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament, by Evelyn I. Funda
March 17 — Madam Secretary: A Memoir, by Madeleine Albright
April 21 — I Escaped from Auschwitz:The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews, by Rudolf Vrba
May 19 — Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History, by Heda Margolius Kovály and Helena Treštíková
June 16 — Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler, by Trudi Kanter
July 21 — Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfař
August 18 — Women’s Voices in Rowing, by Daniela Nachazelova
September 15 — Moon Over Sasova: One American’s Experience Teaching in Post-Cold War Slovakia, by Christopher Shaffer
October 20 — Praguers Around the World: Seven Comics About Successful Czechs Abroad, by Martin Nekola
November 17 — The Advantage of Being Poor, by Ernie Buresh
December 15 — Nicholas Winton’s Lottery of Life, by Matej Mináč
About the Book Club Moderator:
Steve Pederson is an UW Eau Claire graduate with a history major and a Scandinavian studies minor. He taught U.S. history, economics, and advanced placement American history in two Wisconsin high schools. Living in Iowa for the past 19 years, Steve is currently employed as a tour guide for the Walter’s Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home at Cedar Rock State Park in rural Buchanan County.
