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West End Book Club Online
The West End Book Club reads a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. Books are available at the Fairmount Library. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM. At this time, our meetings are on Zoom. Registration is required so that you can get the login information for the meeting.
- Date:
- Tuesday, May 11, 2021
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:45pm
- Branch:
- Fairmount
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Clubs
May 11: "Frog Music" by Emma Donoghue
Synopsis: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Over the next three days, her friend Blanche Beunon, a French burlesque dancer, will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first.
June 8: "These Things Hidden" by Heather Gudenkauf
Synopsis: When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn--shy, quiet Brynn--who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her. But then Allison is released to a halfway house, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister. Now their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden.