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SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.  France\, 1939 – In the quiet village of Carriveau\, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband\, Antoine\, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do\, in droves of marching soldiers\, in caravans of trucks and tanks\, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home\, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope\, as danger escalates all around them\, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. \nVianne’s sister\, Isabelle\, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl\, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war\, she meets Gäetan\, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France\, and she falls in love as only the young can … completely. But when he betrays her\, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back\, risking her life time and again to save others. \nWith courage\, grace\, and powerful insight\, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters\, separated by years and experience\, by ideals\, passion and circumstance\, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival\, love\, and freedom in German-occupied\, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone\, a novel for a lifetime.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2026-02-12/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is: Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. The Roaring Twenties – the Jazz Age – has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group\, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy\, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks\, Jews\, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure\, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana\, he d become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows – their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches\, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges\, prosecutors\, ministers\, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence\, it was a seemingly powerless woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties\, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees. A Fever in the Heartland marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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