BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20250717T140000Z DTEND:20250717T150000Z DTSTAMP:20250717T000000Z SUMMARY:Morning Book Club DESCRIPTION:July 17 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry\n\nTwo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.\n\nPoppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child\; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust\; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow\, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago\, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City\, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer\, for a decade\, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.\n\nUntil two years ago\, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.\n\nAugust 28 Heart of Darkness / Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad\n\nHeart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized\, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa\, only to find his dark and evil soul.\n\nThe Secret Sharer. The saga of a young\, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself.\n\nHeart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea\, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.\n\nSeptember 18 The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali\n\nIn 1950s Tehran\, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father\, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.\n\nLuckily\, on the first day of school\, she meets Homa\, a kind\, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together\, the two girls play games\, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home\, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar\, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”\n\nTogether\, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point\, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.\n\nOctober 16 Tilt by Emma Pattee\n\nSet over the course of one day\, a heart-racing story about a woman facing the unimaginable\, determined to find safety\n\nAnnie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland\, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband\, no phone or money\, and a city left in chaos\, she realizes there’s nothing to do but walk.\n\nMaking her way across the wreckage of Portland\, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help\, a riot at a grocery store\, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks\, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage\, her disappointing career\, and her anxiety about having a baby. She’s determined to change her life if she can just make it home.\n\nNovember 20 The Rainbow Comes & Goes by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt\n\nCooper’s intensely busy career as a journalist affords him little time to spend with his 91 year old mother. After she briefly fell ill\, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before—a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives\, the things that matter to them\, and what they still want to learn about each other.\n\nBoth a son’s love letter to his mother & an unconventional mother’s life lessons for her grown son\, this blend if memoir & advice offers a rare window into their close relationship and fascinating lives. In these often hilarious and touching exchanges\, they share their most private thoughts and the hard-earned truths they’ve learned along the way.\n\nDecember 18 Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn\n\nThey've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization\, but now that they're sixty years old\, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.\n\nBillie\, Mary Alice\, Helen\, and Natalie have worked for the Museum\, an elite network of assassins\, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.\n\nWhen the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement\, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board\, the top-level members of the Museum\, can order the termination of field agents\, and the women realize they've been marked for death.\n\n \n LOCATION:West Caldwell - New Book Area ORGANIZER;CN="West Caldwell Public Library":MAILTO:programs@westcaldwell.bccls.org CATEGORIES:Book Club CONTACT;CN="West Caldwell Public Library":MAILTO:programs@westcaldwell.bccls.org STATUS:CONFIRMED UID:LibCal-14464602 URL:https://bccls.libcal.com/event/14464602 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR