Book Club – The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

Zoom meeting to discuss "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" by Christy Lefteri.

Book Club

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

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. Readers are asked to choose a book from a selection of Ukrainain-related books on the topics of geography, history, fiction, poetry, and anthology. Discussion ...

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Book Club – Paradise, by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

Book Club reading Paradise, by Abdulrazak Gurnah; recommended by Friendship Force International.

Book Club – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Zoom - within your own home! Madison, WI, United States

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, ...

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Book Club – Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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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, ...

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Book Club – The Tortilla Curtain

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The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle The 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. Contact Marjie Marion for the ...

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