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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T190000
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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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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:20260413T104738
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230821T140154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T141526Z
UID:4602-1695319200-1695322800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library for a discussion of September’s book\, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. \nSummary: \nFour mothers\, four daughters\, four families\, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s telling the stories. In 1949\, four Chinese women\, recent immigrants to San Francisco\, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters’ futures\, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters\, who have never heard these stories\, think their mothers’ advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they’ve unknowingly inherited of their mothers’ pasts. \nWith wit and sensitivity\, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful\, often tender\, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets\, trying to unravel the truth about her life\, the strings become more tangled\, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters\, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller\, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-34/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230620T205320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T205320Z
UID:4443-1692295200-1692298800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meet us in the library at 6pm for discussion of July’s book\, Olive\, Again by Elizabeth Strout. As part of Summer Reading\, this is the follow-up book to Olive Kitteridge that we read in June. \nSummary: \nPrickly\, wry\, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic\, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force\,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages\, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby\, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father\, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment\, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush\, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept\, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us\, to move us\, and to inspire us—in Strout’s words—“to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-33/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230620T204243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T204243Z
UID:4438-1689876000-1689879600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library at 6pm for a discussion of July’s book\, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Head’s up: next month we will read the follow-up\, Olive\, Again. \nSummary: \nWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts\, its tragedies and joys\, and the endurance it requires. \nAt times stern\, at other times patient\, at times perceptive\, at other times in sad denial\, Olive Kitteridge\, a retired schoolteacher\, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby\, Maine\, and in the world at large\, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child\, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband\, Henry\, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. \nAs the townspeople grapple with their problems\, mild and dire\, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life – sometimes painfully\, but always with ruthless honesty. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-32/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230522T211609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T213618Z
UID:4388-1686852000-1686855600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library at 6pm for a discussion of June’s book\, Truly\, Madly\, Guilty by Liane Moriarty. \nSummary: \nDespite their differences\, Erika and Clementine have been best friends since they were children. So when Erika needs help\, Clementine should be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you’d think. \nFor Clementine\, as a mother of a two desperately trying to practice for the audition of a lifetime\, the last thing she needs is Erika asking for something\, again. \nBut the barbecue should be the perfect way to forget their problems for a while. Especially when their hosts\, Vid and Tiffany\, are only too happy to distract them. \nWhich is how it all spirals out of control…(via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-31/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230501T171158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230501T171158Z
UID:4335-1684432800-1684436400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library at 6pm for a discussion of this month’s book\, The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. \n  \nSummary: \nLisa Wingate brings to life stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War\, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off. \nLouisiana\, 1875 In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction\, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia\, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane\, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie\, Lavinia’s former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas\, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane\, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation\, but for Hannie\, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery’s end\, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly limitless frontiers of Texas and\, improbably\, hope. \nLouisiana\, 1987 For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva\, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt–until she lands in a tiny\, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine\, Louisiana\, seems suspicious of new ideas and new people\, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled oaks and run-down plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women\, a long-ago journey\, and a hidden book that could change everything. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-30/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230325T154958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230325T154958Z
UID:4261-1682013600-1682017200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6 pm as we discuss April’s book\, The Husbands by Chandler Baker. Copies are available for pick up! \nSUMMARY \n“Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life\, she packs the lunches\, schedules the doctor appointments\, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are\, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard\, too… but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? \nWhen the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch\, an exclusive suburban neighborhood\, Nora meets a group of high-powered women–a tech CEO\, a neurosurgeon\, an award-winning therapist\, a bestselling author–with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to help with a resident’s wrongful death case\, she is pulled into the lives of the women there. She finds the air is different in Dynasty Ranch. The women aren’t hanging on by a thread. \nBut as the case unravels\, Nora uncovers a plot that may explain the secret to having-it-all. One that’s worth killing for. Calling to mind a Stepford Wives gender-swap\,  The Husbands imagines a world where the burden of the “second shift” is equally shared–and what it may take to get there.” \n (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-29/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230202T194510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230225T141806Z
UID:4155-1678989600-1678993200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6 pm as we discuss March’s book\, The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan. Copies are available for pick up now. \n  \n“Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found\, on the playing field\, Derrywood Park\, 2nd September. \nBone china cup and saucer—Found\, on a bench in Riveria Public Gardens\, 31st October. \nAnthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago\, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée\, Therese. That very same day\, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted\, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects—the things others have dropped\, misplaced\, or accidentally left behind—and writing stories about them. Now\, in the twilight of his life\, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. As the end nears\, he bequeaths his secret life’s mission to his unsuspecting assistant\, Laura\, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures\, including an irritable ghost. \nRecovering from a bad divorce\, Laura\, in some ways\, is one of Anthony’s lost things. But when the lonely woman moves into his mansion\, her life begins to change. She finds a new friend in the neighbor’s quirky daughter\, Sunshine\, and a welcome distraction in Freddy\, the rugged gardener. As the dark cloud engulfing her lifts\, Laura\, accompanied by her new companions\, sets out to realize Anthony’s last wish: reuniting his cherished lost objects with their owners. \nLong ago\, Eunice found a trinket on the London pavement and kept it through the years. Now\, with her own end drawing near\, she has lost something precious—a tragic twist of fate that forces her to break a promise she once made. \nAs the Keeper of Lost Objects\, Laura holds the key to Anthony and Eunice’s redemption. But can she unlock the past and make the connections that will lay their spirits to rest?” (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-28/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20230128T184913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230128T184952Z
UID:4127-1676570400-1676574000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library at 6pm for a discussion of February’s book\, Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-27/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20221229T170649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221229T170649Z
UID:4064-1674151200-1674154800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Book Club of the New Year! We will be discussing Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Following the talk we will watch the movie version directed by Sean Penn. We’ll have some tea or cocoa and light snacks to enjoy as well.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-16/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Just For Fun,Programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T211041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T145224Z
UID:3146-1671127200-1671130800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of this month’s book\, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-25/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T210958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T202243Z
UID:3144-1668535200-1668538800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:It was a beast of a book\, but we’re finally ready to discuss it. Join us tonight at 6pm!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-24/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T210913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T202127Z
UID:3142-1666288800-1666292400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We’re reading a really big book\, so in order to give our Book Clubbers plenty of time\, we will not be meeting in October. Instead we will meet on next on Tuesday\, November 15th at 6pm. See you there!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-23/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T210829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220823T180058Z
UID:3140-1663264800-1663268400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this month’s discussion of The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. \nSummary: \nRule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.\nRule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register. \nOne cold February evening in 1791\, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop\, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer\, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose – selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning\, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register. \nIn present-day London\, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone\, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames\, she can’t resist investigating\, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search\, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate – and not everyone will survive. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-22/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220818T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220818T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T210733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220725T221050Z
UID:3138-1660845600-1660849200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of this month’s book We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. \nSummary \nWalk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police\, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend\, Vincent King\, to prison decades before. Now\, thirty years later\, Vincent is being released. \nDuchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother\, Star\, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them\, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright\, but recently that light has dimmed\, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess―her clothes are torn\, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks\, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together. \nA fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you\, loved ones will leave you\, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King\, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in\, arms wide closed. \nChris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating\, with flashes of humor and hope throughout\, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how\, in the end\, love―in all its different guises―wins. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-21/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T104738
CREATED:20220127T210642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T195541Z
UID:3136-1658426400-1658430000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of this month’s book Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah. \nSummary \nAfter the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer\, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois\, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn\, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. \nThe girl calls herself Ursa\, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation\, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past. \nJo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor\, Gabriel Nash\, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together\, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore? \nThough the three have formed an incredible bond\, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle\, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them\, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open\, and their fates will be left to the stars. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-20/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Summer Reading
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