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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of March’s book\, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. \nSummary: \n“Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s ‘pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature’ (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times.” (via Storygraph)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-64/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20251230T155043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T191012Z
UID:7100-1771524000-1771527600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of February’s book\, The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley. \nSummary: \n“The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship\, and even love. \nJulian Jessop\, an eccentric\, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain\, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local cafe. It’s run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica\, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long\, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves–and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica’s Cafe. \nThe Authenticity Project‘s cast of characters–including Hazard\, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice\, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends–is by turns quirky and funny\, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It’s a story about being brave and putting your real self forward–and finding out that it’s not as scary as it seems. In fact\, it looks a lot like happiness. \nThe Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for–and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.” (via StoryGraph)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-63/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20251230T154959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T151442Z
UID:7098-1768500000-1768503600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of One By One by Freida McFadden. Let’s see if she lives up to the hype! \nSummary: \n“One by one\, they will get what they deserve… \nA night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. \nShe thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven. \nThen Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception\, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought. \nHours later\, they are lost. Hopelessly lost. \nAnd as they navigate deeper into the woods\, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them? \nBut as more time passes\, one thing becomes clear: \nOnly one of them will return home alive.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-62/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20251117T162713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T162913Z
UID:6968-1766080800-1766084400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book\, All Adults Here by Emma Straub. \nSummary: \n“When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town\, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly\, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three\, now-grown children. But to what consequence? \nAstrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused\, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide\, so many years later\, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. \nIn All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom\, humor\, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings\, aging parents\, high school boyfriends\, middle school mean girls\, the lifelong effects of birth order\, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood\, whether we like them to or not.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-61/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20251020T143928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T143928Z
UID:6887-1763661600-1763665200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of November’s book\, Where’d You Go\, Bernadette by Maria Semple. \nSummary:\n“When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades\, Bernadette\, a fiercely intelligent shut-in\, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted\, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands\, she disappears\, leaving her family to pick up the pieces–which is exactly what Bee does\, weaving together an elaborate web of emails\, invoices\, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where’d You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter’s love for her mother.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-60/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250920T133255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250920T135658Z
UID:6781-1760637600-1760641200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of October’s book\, Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce. \nSummary: \n“It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II\, and Margery Benson\, a schoolteacher and spinster\, is trying to get through life\, surviving on scraps. One day\, she reaches her breaking point\, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist–the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her\, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-59/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250819T181320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T230041Z
UID:6746-1758218400-1758222000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of September’s book The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams. \nSummary: \n“In the summer of 1951\, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite\, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society\, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher\, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse\, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails\, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher\, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado\, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. \nBut beneath the island’s patrician surface\, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions\, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends\, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas\, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer\, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats\, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University\, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood\, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense\, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher\, and as the summer winds to its end\, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. \nNow\, in the landmark summer of 1969\, Miranda returns at last\, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface\, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores\, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself\, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more\, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager\, and she begins a fierce\, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (Via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-58/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250728T163835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T163903Z
UID:6627-1755799200-1755802800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of August’s book A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. \nSummary: \n“The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains\, silent forests\, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike\, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way—and a couple of bears. Already a classic\, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-57/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250616T163905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T163905Z
UID:6463-1752775200-1752778800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of July’s book\, Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris. \nSummary: \n“Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker\, a masterful gardener and cook\, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds\, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them\, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home\, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better. \nBut it’s difficult\, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable. \nSome might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee\, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house\, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows. \nSome might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over\, and the front door has closed.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-56/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250512T135925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T142555Z
UID:6394-1750356000-1750359600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of June’s book\, Now Is Not The Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson. \nSummary: \n“From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant\, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer\, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. \nSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer\, indifferent student\, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield\, Tennessee\, when she meets Zeke\, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly\, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster\, shot through with an enigmatic phrase\, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives\, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. \nThe posters begin appearing everywhere\, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists\, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop\, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. \nTwenty years later\, Frances Eleanor Budge—famous author\, mom to a wonderful daughter\, wife to a loving husband—gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she’s so carefully built? \nA bold coming-of-age story\, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose\, Now Is Not The Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love\, identity\, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and\, ultimately\, what the truth will set free.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-55/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250422T173849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T173912Z
UID:6360-1747332000-1747335600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of May’s book\, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. \nSummary: \n“1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare\, Missouri\, girls are disappearing. \nWhen the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted\, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch\, a local boy with one eye\, who saves the girl\, and\, in doing so\, leaves heartache in his wake. \nPatch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. \nA missing person mystery\, a serial killer thriller\, a love story\, a unique twist on each\, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession\, and the blinding light of hope.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-54/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250324T153930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T154234Z
UID:6292-1744912800-1744916400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of March’s book\, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. \nSummary: \n“When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp\, two worlds collide. \nEarly morning\, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant\, Barbara Van Laar\, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago\, never to be found. \nAs a panicked search begins\, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow\, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-53/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250128T195551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T231427Z
UID:6138-1742493600-1742497200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of March’s book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. \nSummary: \n“In 1901\, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. \nEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious\, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’\, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table\, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend\, Lizzie\, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced\, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. \nOver time\, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others\, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary\, secretly\, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. \nSet when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed\, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative\, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful\, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words\, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-52/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250114T193323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T193323Z
UID:6051-1740074400-1740078000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of February’s book\, How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. \nSummary: \n“A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley. \n\nWhen Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week\, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. \n\nThe members of the Social Club\, however\, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art\, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne\, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby\, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn\, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible\, secrets are so much easier to hide. \n\nWhen the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building\, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together\, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work\, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-51/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20250101T231610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250101T231850Z
UID:6020-1737050400-1737054000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of the first book of the new year\, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. \nSummary: \n“Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact\, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely\, brilliant\, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. \nBut like science\, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother\, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows\, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out\, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, shrewdly observant\, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters\, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-50/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20241121T185352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241121T185751Z
UID:5892-1734631200-1734634800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book\, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. \nSummary: \n“Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son\, Luca\, the love of her life\, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels\, Lydia’s life is\, by and large\, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published\, none of their lives will ever be the same. \nForced to flee\, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-49/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20241105T174558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T174558Z
UID:5834-1732212000-1732215600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. \nSummary: \n“Texas\, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing\, the water is drying up\, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression\, the Dust Bowl era\, has arrived with a vengeance. \nIn this uncertain and dangerous time\, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west\, to California\, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream\, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope\, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-48/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240921T140447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T140447Z
UID:5731-1729188000-1729191600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of October’s book\, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. \nSummary: \n\n\nNo one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. \nMeet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions\, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza\, vodka\, and phone chats with Mummy. \nBut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond\, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy\, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk\, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. \nSoon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon\, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart\, warm\, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . \nThe only way to survive is to open your heart.(via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-47/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240907T181342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240907T182928Z
UID:5669-1726768800-1726772400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of September’s book\, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. \nSummary: \n“The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption\, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober\, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination\, teaching them physics\, geology\, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank\, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. \nThe Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed\, clothed\, and protected one another\, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them\, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. \nThe Glass Castle is truly astonishing–a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.” (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-46/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240725T142731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T142731Z
UID:5542-1723744800-1723748400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of August’s book\, Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. \nSummary: \n“Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister\, Aggie\, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape\, but Aggie\, too\, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. \nInti is not the woman she once was\, either\, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving\, Inti begins to let her guard down\, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead\, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible\, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill\, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect? \nPropulsive and spell-binding\, Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves—if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-45/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240718T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240718T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240622T174632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T174632Z
UID:5438-1721325600-1721329200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of July’s book\, Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward. \nSummary: \n“‘Let us descend\,’ the poet now began\, ‘and enter this blind world.’” — Inferno\, Dante Alighieri \nLet Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery\, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching\, harrowing\, replete with transcendent love\, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. \nAnnis\, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her\, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march\, Annis turns inward\, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout\, she opens herself to a world beyond this world\, one teeming with of earth and water\, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give\, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent\, this\, her fourth novel\, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. \nFrom one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation\, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests\, swamps\, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet\, a masterwork for the ages.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-44/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240511T134029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240511T134029Z
UID:5326-1718906400-1718910000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of June’s book Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. \nSummary: \n“Paris\, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup\, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them\, Sarah locks her younger brother\, Michel\, in their favorite hiding place\, a cupboard in the family’s apartment. She keeps the key\, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. \nParis\, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s sixtieth anniversary\, Julia Jarmond\, an American journalist\, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years\, married a Frenchman\, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation\, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal\, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel’ d’Hiv’ to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah’s past\, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. \nWriting about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity\, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle\, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-43/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240429T153444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T155418Z
UID:5266-1715882400-1715886000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of May’s book After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman. \nSummary: \n“Dead is dead. Missing is gone. \nWhen Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959\, he charms her with wild promises\, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses\, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July in 1976\, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix\, facing prison\, vanishes. \nThough Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be\, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress\, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam\, everyone assumes she’s left to join her old lover—until her remains are discovered in a secluded park. \nNow\, twenty-six years later\, Roberto “Sandy” Sanchez\, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash\, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness\, jealousy\, resentment\, greed\, and longing stretching over five decades. And at its center is the man who\, though long gone\, has never been forgotten by the five women who loved him: the enigmatic Felix Brewer. \nFelix Brewer left five women behind. Now there are four. Does at least one of them know the truth?” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-42/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240323T175415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240323T175455Z
UID:5168-1713463200-1713466800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of April’s book\, My Sister\, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. \n  \nSummary: \n“When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister\, Ayoola\, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach\, rubber gloves\, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in\, quote\, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria\, but she loves her sister and\, as they say\, family always comes first. Until\, that is\, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him\, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other…” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-41/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240217T143650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240217T143650Z
UID:5013-1711044000-1711047600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of March’s book\, A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. \nSummary: \n“Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1\,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zebulon County\, Iowa—to his three daughters\, Caroline\, Ginny\, and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities\, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father’s generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk\, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm—from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark\, painful detail.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-40/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240106T174824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T181002Z
UID:4905-1708020000-1708023600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of February’s book\, And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass. \nSummary: \n“Kit Noonan’s life is stalled: unemployed\, twins to help support\, a mortgage to pay—and a frustrated wife\, who is certain that more than anything else\, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father’s identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather\, Jasper\, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns\, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died of AIDS in Glass’s first novel\, Three Junes). She and her husband are the only ones who know the full story of an accident whose repercussions spread even further when Jasper introduces Lucinda to Kit. Immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from Vermont to the tip of Cape Cod\, Glass weaves together the lives of Kit\, Jasper\, Lucinda and ultimately\, Fenno McLeod\, the beloved protagonist of Three Junes (now in his sixties). An unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies\, the necessity of forgiveness\, and the surprisingly mutable meaning of family.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-39/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20240106T173708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T173708Z
UID:4891-1705600800-1705604400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of this month’s book\, The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon. \nSummary: \n“A genre-defying new novel\, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein\, which brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us. \n1978: at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont\, the brilliant psychiatrist\, Dr. Helen Hildreth\, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she’s home with her cherished grandchildren\, Vi and Eric\, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets\, preparing them home-cooked meals\, providing them with care and attention and love. \nThen one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris—silent\, hollow-eyed\, skittish\, and feral—does not behave like a normal girl. \nStill\, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club\, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them. Before long\, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles\, go to the drive-in\, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because\, as Vi explains\, monsters are everywhere. \n2019: Lizzy Shelley\, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us\, is traveling to Vermont\, where a young girl has been abducted\, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She’s determined to hunt it down\, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real—and one of them is her very own sister.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-38/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20231116T200621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T200657Z
UID:4801-1703181600-1703185200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of this month’s book\, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict. \nSummary: \n“In her twenties\, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts\, books\, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world\, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. \nBut Belle has a secret\, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener\, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American. \nThe Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman\, famous for her intellect\, style\, and wit\, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-37/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20231014T154804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T210918Z
UID:4755-1700157600-1700161200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of November’s book\, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. \nSummary: \n“It’s the following Thursday. \nElizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague\, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake\, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds\, a violent mobster\, and a very real threat to his life. \nAs bodies start piling up\, Elizabeth enlists Joyce\, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well\, wouldn’t that be a bonus? \nBut this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-36/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104545
CREATED:20230926T224905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T225403Z
UID:4684-1697738400-1697742000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of the month’s book\, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. \nSummary: \nMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise\, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. \nHere is a book as joyous and painful\, as mysterious and memorable\, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children\, the brute insult of bigotry\, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. \nSent by their mother to live with their devout\, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town\, Maya and her brother\, Bailey\, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis\, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later\, in San Francisco\, Maya learns that love for herself\, the kindness of others\, her own strong spirit\, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. \nPoetic and powerful\, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-35/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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