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SUMMARY:Book Group - West with the Night
DESCRIPTION:The book will be West of the Night by Beryl Markham \n  \nFrom good reads – \n  \nThis 1942 memoir (not a complete autobiography) by Beryl Markham chronicles her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s\, and her stellar careers as racehorse trainer and bush pilot. \nMarkham was the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot’s license\, piloting passengers and supplies to remote corners of Africa. She became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. \nConsidered a classic of outdoor literature and ranked #8 by National Geographic Adventure in 2008 on its list of the 100 best adventure books.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-west-with-the-night/
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SUMMARY:Book Group - Boston Girl
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this month’s book group meeting. \nReading Boston Girl by Anita Diamant \n  \nFrom GoodReads \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night\, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values\, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. \nAddie Baum is The Boston Girl\, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End\, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood\, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine – a world of short skirts\, movies\, celebrity culture and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. \nEighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter\, who has asked her “How did you get to be the woman you are today?” She begins in 1915\, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters\, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house\, to her first\, disastrous love affair\, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naïve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. \nWritten with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers\, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth-century America\, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-boston-girl/
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SUMMARY:Book Group: North Woods by Daniel Mason
DESCRIPTION:March 11: North Woods by Daniel Mason \nAccording to goodreads: \nA sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England\, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring\, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. \nWhen a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony\, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier\, destined for glory\, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine\, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave\, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter\, a conman\, a stalking panther\, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods\, they come to realize that the dark\, raucous\, beautiful past is very much alive. \nTraversing cycles of history\, nature\, and even literature\, North Woods shows the myriad\, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another\, across time\, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year\, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on\, even after we’re gone?
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-north-woods-by-daniel-mason/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group - Where You Will Find Me  by Ty Gagne
DESCRIPTION:Where You’ll Find Me: Risk\, Decisions\, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova \n\n\n\n\n\nOn Feb. 15\, 2015\, Kate Matrosova\, an avid mountaineer\, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Late the following day\, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively rugged slopes. \nAt thirty-two\, Matrosova was ultra-fit and healthy and had already summited much larger mountains on several continents. Her gear included a rescue beacon and a satellite phone. Yet\, despite their best efforts\, more than forty expert search and rescue personnel\, a New Hampshire Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter\, and a Civil Air Patrol Cessna airplane could not reach her in time to save her. \nWhat went wrong? \nWhere You’ll Find Me offers possible answers to that question\, demonstrating why Matrosova’s story–what we know and what we will never know–represents such an intriguing and informative case study in risk analysis and decision-making.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-where-you-will-find-me-by-ty-gagne/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
DESCRIPTION:February 11: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig \nAccording to goodreads: \nThe final novel from a great American storyteller. \nDonal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother\, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies\, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951\, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc\, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy\, opinionated\, argumentative\, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband\, Herman the German\, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many\, Kate  packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out\, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition\, the pair light out for the territory together\, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. \nCharming\, wise\, and slyly funny\, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-last-bus-to-wisdom-by-ivan-doig/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group - The First Ladies
DESCRIPTION:January 14: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray \nAccording to goodreads: \n  \nA novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world\, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. \nThe daughter of formerly enslaved parents\, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator\, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity\, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education\, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets\, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph. \nWhen Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president\, the two women begin to collaborate more closely\, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR\, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness\, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary\, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality. \nThis is the story of two different\, yet equally formidable\, passionate\, and committed women\, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63024287-the-first-ladies?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_16
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-the-first-ladies/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group - “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
DESCRIPTION:On October 8th the book group will talk about  “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks \n  \nAccording to Goodreads \nA discarded painting in a junk pile\, a skeleton in an attic\, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands\, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit\, obsession\, and injustice across American history \nKentucky\, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war\, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night\, he reunites with the stallion and his groom\, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. \nNew York City\, 1954. Martha Jackson\, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters\, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. \nWashington\, DC\, 2019. Jess\, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia\, and Theo\, a Nigerian-American art historian\, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse–one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance\, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. \nBased on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington\, Horse is a novel of art and science\, love and obsession\, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-horse-by-geraldine-brooks/
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group -  The Boys in the Boat
DESCRIPTION:July 9\, at 4:00 The Boys in the Boat  by D. Brown
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-the-boys-in-the-boat/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
DESCRIPTION:On June 11 the book group will be discussing Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer \nAccording to  GoodReads: \nAs a botanist\, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation\, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass\, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth\, and learning to give our own gifts in return.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-braiding-sweetgrass-by-robin-wall-kimmerer/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
DESCRIPTION:On May 14 the book group will discuss The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson   \nAccording to GoodReads: \nOn Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister\, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen\, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months\, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign\, killing 45\,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally–and willing to fight to the end. \nIn The Splendid and the Vile\, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship\, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama\, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home\, Chequers; his wartime retreat\, Ditchley\, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries\, original archival documents\, and once-secret intelligence reports–some released only recently–Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife\, Clementine; their youngest daughter\, Mary\, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son\, Randolph\, and his beautiful\, unhappy wife\, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover\, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle\,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments.ds:
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-the-splendid-and-the-vile-a-saga-of-churchill-family-and-defiance-during-the-blitz-by-erik-larson/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group :A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard\, Based on Her Diary\, 1785-1812. by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, the book group will dicuss A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard\, Based on Her Diary\, 1785-1812. by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. \n  \nFrom GoodReads: \nPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine\, “A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign\, and yet so similar to our own” ( The New York Times Book Review). \nBetween 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell\, Maine. On the basis of that diary\, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait\, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly\, A Midwife’s Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-a-midwifes-tale-the-life-of-martha-ballard-based-on-her-diary-1785-1812-by-laurel-thatcher-ulrich/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group - Postcard From Italy by Angela Petch.
DESCRIPTION:Oct 10 at 4:00 Postcard From Italy by Angela Petch. \n  \nFrom Goodreads: \nItaly\, 1945. ‘Where am I?’ The young man wakes\, bewildered. He sees olive trees against a bright blue sky. A soft voice soothes him. ‘We saw you fall from your plane. The parachute saved you.’ He remembers nothing of his life\, or the war that has torn the world apart… but where does he belong? \nEngland\, present day. Antiques-shop owner Susannah feels adrift. Her beloved father has died\, and her grandmother Elsie’s memories are disappearing. But everything changes when she stumbles across a yellowed postcard bearing a picture of a beautiful Italian stone farmhouse\, tucked away in Elsie’s dressing table. A message dated from the Second World War speaks of a secret love. Could her grandmother\, who never talked about the past\, have fallen for someone in Italy all those years ago? \nWith Elsie confused and distressed by her questions\, heartbroken Susannah tracks down the house on the postcard. Arriving at what is now a crumbling hotel by the sparkling Italian sea\, she feels strangely at home. And after an unexpected encounter with handsome wine waiter Giacomo\, she can’t tell if it’s his dark eyes or his offer to help solve her mystery that makes her heart race. \nTogether they find a dusty chest tucked in a forgotten corner of the building. The white silk of a World War II parachute spills out. And the British pilot’s identity tag nestled in the folds bears a familiar name… \nAs a story of lost memories\, terrible betrayal and impossible choices unfolds\, Susannah comes closer to a devastating wartime secret at the heart of her own family. Did she ever really know her grandmother? And when she finally learns the truth\, will it help heal her pain – or tear her apart for good? \nAn absolutely stunning page-turner that will sweep you away to the olive groves and majestic views of the Italian coast. Perfect for fans of Kathryn Hughes\, Fiona Valpy and Victoria Hislop.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-postcard-from-italy-by-angela-petch/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and/or Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
DESCRIPTION:Sept 12 at 4:00  David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and/or Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. \n  \nDavid Copperfield from Goodreads: \nDavid Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather\, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant\, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt\, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble\, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous\, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber\, one of literature’s great comic creations. In David Copperfield – the novel he described as his ‘favourite child’ – Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works\, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850\, and includes updated suggestions for further reading\, original illustrations by ‘Phiz’\, a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction\, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel’s autobiographical elements\, and its central themes of memory and identity. \n  \nDemon Copperfield from Goodreads: \nSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia\, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer\, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair\, a caustic wit\, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath\, relayed in his own unsparing voice\, he braves the modern perils of foster care\, child labor\, derelict schools\, athletic success\, addiction\, disastrous loves\, and crushing losses. Through all of it\, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. \nMany generations ago\, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel\, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South\, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion\, and above all\, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys\, and all those born into beautiful\, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-david-copperfield-by-charles-dickens-and-or-demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group - Lessons in Chemistry by Barbara Garmus
DESCRIPTION:July 11 at 4:00 Lessons in Chemistry by Barbara Garmus \nFrom Goodreads: \nChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact\, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely\, brilliant\, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. \nBut like science\, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother\, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows\, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out\, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, shrewdly observant\, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters\, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-lessons-in-chemistry-by-barbara-garmus/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group - Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
DESCRIPTION:June 13\, at 4:00: Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning\n“This “stellar read” ( Los Angeles Times ) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father’s employers in early 1900s Colorado. \nIn a voice infused with sly humor\, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts\, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer\, the charming “Countess” Inge\, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper\, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants\, the Gradys\, formerly enslaved people\, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie. \nOutside the manor walls\, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer\, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones\, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy\, Sylvie decides to act. \nDrawn from true stories of Colorado history\, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants\, and is a story imbued with longing—for self-expression and equality\, freedom and adventure.” Goodreads\nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321424-gilded-mountain?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_1
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-gilded-mountain-by-kate-manning/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group - The Flower Boat Girl: A novel based on a true story of the woman who became the most powerful pirate in history by Larry Feign
DESCRIPTION:“Her father traded away her youth.\nSea bandits stole her freedom.\nShe has one way to get them back:\nBecome the most powerful pirate in the world.” \nGoodreads\nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57874519-the-flower-boat-girl?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=iCtdFVY0ru&rank=1
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/the-flower-boat-girl-a-novel-based-on-a-true-story-of-the-woman-who-became-the-most-powerful-pirate-in-history-by-larry-feign/
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220712T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Group - The Last Green Valley by Mark T. Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:“A historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring\, survival\, and triumph. In late March 1944\, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine\, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West\, the Martels’ story is a brutal\, complex\, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love\, faith\, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized.” \nGoodreads. \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54362408-the-last-green-valley?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=J82r6JCFBr&rank=1
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/the-last-green-valley-by-mark-t-sullivan/
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Group - The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood
DESCRIPTION:“Born of illustrious New England stock\, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist\, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer\, a poet\, playwright\, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven\, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later\, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel’s history. The journey into Rachel’s world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible\, unveiling a life fraught with challenge\, and buried by tragedy\, and yet incandescent with joy.” Goodreads \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55509620-the-field-house?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=GS2UxVaDk4&rank=2
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/the-field-house-a-writers-life-lost-and-found-on-an-island-in-maine-by-robin-clifford-wood/
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Group - The Age of Innocence  or The House of Mirth\, By Edith Wharton
DESCRIPTION:Either or Both – We wanted to delve into something written 100 years ago. \n  \n“Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize\, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York\, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” From Goodreads \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53835.The_Age_of_Innocence?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZixUPJmsvJ&rank=1 \n  \n“First published in 1905\, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles\, portraying the moral\, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.” From Goodreads \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZixUPJmsvJ&rank=2
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/the-age-of-innocence-or-the-house-of-mirth-by-edith-wharton/
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:When Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams - Book Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:When Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams \nA gripping\, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. It is a cunningly crafted\, sophisticated novel\, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape\, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction. From Goodreads \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58412141-when-justice-sleeps?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1iVrusD2iZ&rank=
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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SUMMARY:The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - Book Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich \nBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington\, D.C.\, this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose\, sly humor\, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. From Goodreads \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/…/43721059-the-night-watchman… 
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T160000
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SUMMARY:Fierce Little Thing by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore - Book Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Fierce Little Thing \nTHE EXCITING NEWS IS THAT THE AUTHOR\, MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE\, IS PLANNING TO JOIN US VIA ZOOM!    \nPLEASE BE SURE TO BRING YOUR QUESTIONS!  We will be talking about her newest novel: Fierce Little Thing which is set here in Denmark! You can read reviews\, including one in the New York Times\, here: http://mirandabw.com/books/fierce-little-thing/ \nFrom Goodreads: “Saskia is a damaged\, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She is taken with Abraham\, Home’s charismatic leader\, Abraham. The four other teens who lived there become her best and only friends. Two decades later\, Saskia is shuttered in her Connecticut estate\, estranged from the others. \nFrom vastly different lives\, the five return to confront their blackmailer and reckon with the horror that split them apart. How far will they go to bury their secret forever?” 
URL:http://www.denmark.lib.me.us/event-calendar/book-group-meeting/
LOCATION:Denmark Public Library\, 121 East Main Street\, Denmark\, ME\, 04022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group Meeting
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