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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss the book Orhan’s Inheritance\, a novel by Aline Ohanesian.   “When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather\, who built a dynasty out of making cilium rugs\, is found dead in a vat of dye\, Orhan inherits the decades old business.  But\, his grandfather’s will raises more questions than it answers.  Kemal has led the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away\, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles.  Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan’s grandfather would have left their home to this woman rather than his own family. ”
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-28/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260216T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will also take place by zoom on Monday February 16\, 7:00.  We will discuss Patriot by Alexei Navalny (2024). ” This is a powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing the Patriot shortly after his near fatal poisoning in 2020.  ”    If you would like to be added to the contact list for the book club\, please contact Marjie Marion.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-27/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:And without further ado\, the book for November will be The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.  We will meet to discuss on Monday\, Nov. 18 at 7:00 by zoom.  Club member Dorothy Baldwin recommends this book\, especially as it ties into the climate meeting attended by some members during the recent FF Conference in Milwaukee.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-13/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230717T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich tells a funny ghost story\, a tale of passion\, a complex marriage\, and a woman’s relentless errors.  \nSet in a Minneapolis bookstore from All Souls’ Day for a one year period.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-the-sentence-by-louise-erdrich/
LOCATION:TBD
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230619T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
DESCRIPTION:The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. \nGathering in person.  Contact Gail Holmes at glholmes@wisc.edu for the location.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-100-year-old-man-who-climbed-out-the-window-and-disappeared/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230515T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
DESCRIPTION:Eight-year-old Kahu\, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara\, New Zealand\, fights to prove her love\, her leadership\, and her destiny.  This coming of age story weaves plenty of Maori culture into the mix. \nContact Marjie for the Zoom information.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-the-whale-rider-by-witi-ihimaera/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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SUMMARY:Book Club - The Tortilla Curtain
DESCRIPTION:The Tortilla Curtain\, by T.C. Boyle \nThe story of immigration conflict in California\, told through the eyes of two very different couples\, one well-off Anglos\, the other undocumented Mexican immigrants living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and native Anglos. \nContact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-the-tortilla-curtain/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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SUMMARY:Book Club - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
DESCRIPTION:Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion\, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life\, bound by the extreme measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could\, at any moment\, steal him away.  \nThe stories collected here are by turns hilarious\, dramatic\, and deeply affecting.They weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time\, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional\, unconditional love. \nContact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-born-a-crime-stories-from-a-south-african-childhood-by-trevor-noah/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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SUMMARY:Book Club - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
DESCRIPTION:New Bremen\, Minnesota\, 1961. It was the Twins’ debut season; the country had a new\, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited often and took many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank was forced to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Forty years later\, he tells the story of discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God. \nContact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-ordinary-grace-by-william-kent-krueger/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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SUMMARY:Book Club - The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
DESCRIPTION:Note it’s the fourth Monday this month! \nContact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-the-exiles-by-christina-baker-kline/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221121T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - Paradise\, by Abdulrazak Gurnah
DESCRIPTION:Paradise\, by Tanzanian-born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah – winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.  Our library system owns 16 copies\, six of which are available as of this writing.  \nThe library summary reads\, “The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa\, a place of trade caravans\, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.”   \nThe book appears on a list of recommendations from Friendship Force International.  \nContact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-paradise-by-abdulrazak-gurnah/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220919T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The next Book Club is taking a summer sabbatical. The next meeting will be on Monday\, September 19\, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom co-leaders Marjie Marion and Marian Ehrenberg have announced.  \nReaders are asked to choose a book from a selection of Ukrainain-related books on the topics of geography\, history\, fiction\, poetry\, and anthology. Discussion will revolve around impressions of the Ukrainain experience as perceived through the books.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjie Marion":MAILTO:midsi@aol.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220523T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
DESCRIPTION:The final book club meeting before taking a break for the summer will be on May 23. The group will discuss All the Light We Cannot See\, by Anthony Doerr. which is “…a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II…Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner\, Doerr illuminates the ways\, against all odds\, people try to be good to one another.” \nMany have already read and loved this book\, so please join the discussion whether you read it years ago or have it still fresh in your mind. To join on May 23 please email Marian Ehrenberg by May 21 for zoom link – marianeh2014@gmail.com.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-by-anthony-doerr/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - The Beekeeper of Aleppo
DESCRIPTION:The next meeting is Monday\, April 25 at 7:00 pm on Zoom. The book will be “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” by Christy Lefteri. It is a compassionate story of a refugee couple’s journey from their home in war torn Syria to find their cousin who had become a beekeeper in England. Several books are available in the Dane County library system. \nEmail Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com by February 24 for the Zoom key.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-the-beekeeper-of-aleppo/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T131302
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SUMMARY:Book Club - "Everything Inside"
DESCRIPTION:On February 28 at 7:00 pm we will meet on Zoom to discuss “Everything Inside” by Edwidge Danticat. \nPublished in 2019\, it is a collection of eight family stories of people from Haiti and the Caribbean. A Google books review says the book is “a collection of vividly imagined stories about community\, family\, and love.” \nEmail Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com by February 24 for the Zoom key.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-everything-inside/
LOCATION:Zoom – within your own home!\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Marian Ehrenberg":MAILTO:marianeh2014@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T131302
CREATED:20211230T205603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211230T211416Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club - My Forbidden Face – Growing Up Under the Taliban
DESCRIPTION:The next Book Club Meeting is on January 24th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM.  \nThat gives you lots of time to read “My Forbidden Face – Growing Up Under the Taliban” by Latifa.  \nIt is available at the local library or on Amazon if you wish to buy it.  \nGoogle says that the book “……. provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart\, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend.”  \nEmail Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com for the Zoom key.
URL:https://ffwis.org/event/book-club-my-forbidden-face-growing-up-under-the-taliban/
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