Afternoon Book Club
All are welcome! Books by Toni Morrison will be discussed, including "Beloved". We will meet at the Scanny cabin.
72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694
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Lavonne Swanson
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Afternoon Book Club
TBDHonor by Thrity Umrigar
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
TBDOpen Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
TBDThe Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
TBDSparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
TBDFight Night by Miriam Toews
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
TBDLong Bright River by Liz Moore
Join us as we discuss books selected by our members. Everyone is welcome, although the logistics of our meetings change frequently. If you are new to the group, please contact the organizers for time and location of the meeting.
Afternoon Book Club
Join us in the first Book Club meeting after the summer. We will have time to socialize and will select books for the monthly Book Club meetings from October through May. Please bring your recommendations with information about the book you are recommending. Meetings from October through May will be on the third Friday of […]
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Women’s Night Out: Potluck Dinner Under the Stars
We have a surprise….our first “Potluck Dinner Under the Stars”. That’s right…. Lavonne Swanson will have tables set up on her patio. The address and driviing instructions are in the October Monthly Newsletter, We will start at 5:30 pm so it will be easier to find the address before the sun sets. […]
Afternoon Book Club
"HORSE" by Geraldine Brooks Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. Location: A Private home. Contact Lavonne Swanson (In the UUCOD Directory) for the host and address.
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Afternoon Book Club: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can pretend to ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with […]
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Afternoon Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
All members and friends are welcome! Lessons in chemistry tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, who becomes a beloved cooking show host in 1960s Southern California after being fired as a chemist a decade earlier. It is also s new series based on the book, - now streaming on Apple+. Location: A Private home. Contact […]
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Afternoon Book Club: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
All Membetrs and Firends are welcome! In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O’Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly […]
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Afternoon Book Club: She’s My Dad by Iolanthe (Lannie) Woulff
All Member and Friends are Welcome! We have a special treat this month. The author will attend to join the discussion. A cautionary tale about the consequences of blind prejudice, SHE’S MY DAD tells the story of a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell, who, returning to her Northern Virginia alma mater to teach English to […]
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Afternoon Book Club: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
All Members and Friends are Welcome! Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if […]
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Afternoon Book Club: The Tubman Train by Doug Peterson
Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous journey. The Tubman Train is the […]
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