Book Club

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

The group will discuss All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr.

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

Note it's the fourth Monday this month! Contact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.

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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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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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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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. Contact Marjie for the Zoom information.

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Gathering in person. Contact Gail Holmes at glholmes@wisc.edu for the location.