COOK YOUR WAY THROUGH…
Cookbook Discussion Group on Zoom
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WINTER 2026 Session:
**REGISTER HERE!**
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, November 18
@ 6:30pm on Zoom
The Family Plot by Megan Collins
When a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch, horrifying secrets are exposed upon the discovery of another body in his grave in this chilling novel from the author of Behind the Red Door and The Winter Sister .
– goodreads.com
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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
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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November 19*, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
2024
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
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December 17*, 2025 @ 6:30pm
West with Giraffes
by Lynda Rutledge
2021
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.
It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.
Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.
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* Date adjusted for holiday closure.