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Wednesday Evening Book Club 2024-2025 |
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About the Group
The Wednesday Evening Book Club reads a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles selected in advance by the group. Meeting Date and Location - Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pm
- Meets the second Wednesday evening of every other month, January-November.
- Upper Level Conference Room of the library (unless otherwise noted).
- RSVP requested but drop-ins are welcome.
- Please check the library's Events Calendar for specific information and to RSVP.
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Trust
by Hernan Diaz
Diaz uses a multilayered narrative to investigate money and power, truth and perception, and early 20th-century U.S. history. In 1920s New York, Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen, of offbeat aristocratic origins, are the crème of society's crème. They're also the protagonists of the novel Bonds, published in 1938 and on everyone's reading list. But the novel doesn't reveal the whole truth about the characters, who here engage with other accounts to share the big picture. (Library Journal, December 2021)
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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The night watchman : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
Traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-nineteenth-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights, as well as a young woman desperate to leave her reservation for the big city of Minneapolis
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When breath becomes air
by Paul Kalanithi
An Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
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The house of doors : a novel
by Twan Eng Tan
In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary—a confession that has devastating consequences.
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Absolution
by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
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We could have been friends, my father and I : a Palestinian memoir
by Raja Shehadeh
"A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship. A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognize his father's courage and, in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja's own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably. This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians, but a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship"
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / : A Novel
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Need a Copy of the Book? - Click on any of the titles (or book covers) above to check availability in our catalog.
- Check mrspl.overdrive.com to see if eBook or eAudiobook copies are available.
- Special book group copies for the next month's discussion are also on a first come, first serve basis at each discussion, or email circ@fallschurchva.gov to request a copy.
Staff Contact for this Book Club - Beth Meadows: email | 703-248-5031 (TTY 711)
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Thank You, MRSPL Foundation! Special thanks to the MRSPL Foundation, whose support enables us to purchase extra copies of each title for this book club. To learn more about the Foundation, which is an independent 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing library materials, services, programs, and equipment, please visit mrsplfoundation.org!
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church, Virginia 22046 703-248-5030 (TTY 711) www.mrspl.org
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