COOK YOUR WAY THROUGH…
Cookbook Discussion Group on Zoom
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FALL 2024 Session:
The Pretty Dish by Jessica Merchant
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. Free copies of the title available to registered participants starting August 1st (while supplies last) at the information desk!
FULL SCHEDULE (4 PART SERIES):
TUESDAY, OCT 1st 2024 @ 7pm on Zoom– Main Meals for Your Main Self, Eat Dessert First, & Serious Sips
TUESDAY, NOV 5th 2024 @ 7pm on Zoom- Party Time, Let’s Go to the Bar, My Favorite Playlists, Beauty DIYs
TUESDAY, DEC 17th @ 7pm- in-person event @ UMFPL!- DIY Craft Event- Homemade Sugar Lip Scrubs
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 [email protected] prior to each meeting to share your dishes with the group and to add to our group photo album on bookclubs.com!
TRUE CRIME TALES
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Tuesday, September 24
@ 7pm on Zoom
If you Tell by Gregg Olsen
A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. – goodreads.com
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ROMANCE BOOK CLUB
Join us in reading the latest and greatest romance fiction titles!
This book club takes place in person at the library.
This event is free & open to all adults.
REGISTER HERE!
August 3 @ 11am
In Five Years
by Rebecca Serle
When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.
But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future.
After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn’t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.
That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.
– from goodreads.com
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SILENT BOOK CLUB
COMING SOON!- Starting July 14, 2024!
2nd Sunday of each month
2-4pm
Join us for dedicated silent reading time in our community room with fellow book lovers! Get book recommendations and bring home some books from our collection!
For more information about Silent Book Club and it’s chapters, visit- https://silentbook.club/
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UMFPL BOOK DISCUSSION
UMFPL’s Book Discussion Group is in person & on Zoom!
Join us however works best for you!
This event is free & open to all adults.
Click below to receive an email with discussion points and Zoom details each month.
Click here to add your email! (No need to sign-up each month, we’ll keep you on our list all year. Register each January to continue to receive Book Discussion information.)
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July 31, 2024 @ 7pm
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
by J. Ryan Stradal
2015
A young girl navigates a tumultuous childhood to become one of the top chefs in the country in this delicious debut. Eva Thorvald is just a baby when her mother leaves and her father dies. Despite never really knowing her chef father and sommelier mother, Eva finds out that cooking is in her blood.
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August 
28, 2024 @ 7pm
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
2022
Two friends — often in love, but never lovers — come together as creative partners in the world of video game design. Success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Spanning 30 years, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel. It examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect — to be loved and to love.
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September 25, 2024 @ 7pm
The Great Mrs. Elias
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
2022
A murder and a case of mistaken identity bring police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, 20-room mansion on Central Park West. That visit sets off an odyssey that moves back and forth in time to reveal the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she amassed and her precipitous fall.
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October 30, 2024 @ 7pm
The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
2021
A small, independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted for a year by the store’s most annoying customer. When Flora dies on All Souls Day, she simply won’t leave the store. Tookie has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention. Now, Tookie must solve the mystery of this haunting while also trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
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November 20, 2024 @ 7pm
No Two Persons
by Erica Bauermeister
2023
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers. Each reader discovers something different that alters their perspective and presents new pathways forward. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways — and how we are more closely connected to one another than we might think.
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December 18, 2024 @ 7pm
When All Is Said
Anne Griffin
2019
“When All Is Said” chronicles the life of Maurice Hannigan from a bar stool in a grand hotel, as the 84-year-old raises a toast to the five most significant people in his life. Even as he is talking to the reader, Hannigan is really addressing his son, Kevin, who is the absent witness of the entire tale.