Upcoming Book Discussion Events
September 11, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 1:30pm
September 1939. Three women: New York socialite Caroline Ferriday, Polish teenager Kasia Kuzmerick, and young German doctor Herta Oberheuser. The lives of these three women collide when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their... Read More
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September 24, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00pm
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country’s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera’s most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening --... Read More
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October 09, 2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 1:30pm
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don... Read More
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October 22, 2018
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 6:00pm
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory.... Read More
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November 13, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 1:30pm
When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he’s aiming to marry the young and freckled milliner, Miss Love Simpson (a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward ), the news is served up all over town with that afternoon’s dinner. And young Will... Read More
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November 26, 2018
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 6:00pm
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded... Read More
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