COOK YOUR WAY THROUGH…
Cookbook Discussion Group on Zoom
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WINTER 2026 Session:
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An Unapologetic Cookbook by Joshua Weissman
Free copies of the book available to registered participants starting Dec. 1 (while supplies last). Cook a recipe from the book and join us on Zoom to discuss!
This discussion takes place virtually on Zoom. Meeting Log-in information will be emailed to registered participants on or before the day of the program and posted to our bookclubs.com page.
FULL SCHEDULE (3 PART SERIES):
TUESDAY, JAN 6th 2026 @ 6:30pm on Zoom —— chapters: Staples from Scratch, Breads, Breakfast, & Appetizers or Snacks
TUESDAY, FEB 3rd 2026 @ 6:30pm on Zoom—— chapters: Meat, Fish, & Pasta and Sandwiches
TUESDAY, MAR 3rd 2026 @ 6:30pm on Zoom—— chapters: Vegetables and Salads, Soup, & Dessert
Join our group on Bookclubs.com to access meeting information, photo albums, discussion boards, polls, and much more! Visit https://bookclubs.com/clubs/5968796/join/ec9466/ to join.
We would love to see pictures of your culinary creations! Email all photos to uppermoreland@mclinc.org prior to each meeting to share your dishes with the group and to add to our group photo album on bookclubs.com!
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TRUE CRIME TALES
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Tuesday, January 20
@ 6:30pm on Zoom
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on the scene, and he spent ten years on this book, the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world’s leading forensic psychologists, and the killers’ own words and drawings—several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. – goodreads.com
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Tuesday, March 17
@ 6:30pm on Zoom
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
A Saturday in 1978 in Florida: In the middle of the night, a man breaks into a female student dormitory. He goes from room to room and kills several residents. He will soon be known as one of the most famous serial killers in the USA. But he was observed committing his crime.
The survivors, including key witness Pamela Schumacher, will be forever changed by this night. They have all become victims. But they tell their perspectives here, they remain masters of their stories. And they hunt the perpetrator on their own – against resistance from the justice system and the police; against public opinion, which idolizes the serial killer. – goodreads.com
UMFPL BOOK DISCUSSION
In person & on Zoom – join us however works best for you!
♦ This event is free & open to all adults ♦
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January 28, 2026 @ 6:30pm
Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty
2024
Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her 28th birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement. Suddenly a woman traveling alone stands. She walks down the aisle making predictions about how and when passengers will die. Some dismiss her, they don’t believe in psychics. Some are delighted with her prophecies! Their lives will supposedly be long. Others are appalled. Aew months later, the first prediction comes true.
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February 25, 2026 @ 6:30pm
James
by Percival Everett
2024
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. With nuanced humor and lacerating observations, “James” illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion as he and Huck navigate their perilous journey in an entirely different light than “Huckleberry Finn.”
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March 25, 2026 @ 6:30pm
Housemates
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
2024
When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art and one another. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography. After Bernie’s former photography professor dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania. The jaunt becomes an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs. The three-week journey brings the artists into conversation with people from all walks of life — “the absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide country” — as they try to make sense of the times. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to pursue their own ideas and dreams –, and to embrace what they are capable of romantically and artistically.
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April 29, 2026 @ 6:30pm
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
2023
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under — but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And 12-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favor to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil — can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written, is there still time to find a happy ending?