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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is: George Washington’s Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade.   \nThe American Revolution is well under way in 1776\, but things are looking bleak for General George Washington and his Continental Army. With Washington’s hasty retreat from New York City in August\, many think the war might soon be over. After all- how on earth is this ragtag group going to defeat its enemy\, the well-trained and well-funded military of the largest empire in history? \nBut Washington soon realizes he can’t win with military might. Instead\, he must outsmart the British\, so he creates a sophisticated intelligence network- the top-secret Culper Spy Ring. Drawing on extensive research\, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger tell the fascinating stories of these long unrecognized spies- a reserved merchant\, a tavern keeper\, a brash young longshoreman\, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor\, a coffeehouse owner\, and a mysterious woman.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-06-15/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T140000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s book selection is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.  Hetty “Handful” Grimke\, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston\, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter\, Sarah\, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world\, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. \nKidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday\, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful\, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years\, as both strive for a life of their own\, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt\, defiance\, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. \nAs the stories build to a riveting climax\, Handful will endure loss and sorrow\, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes\, betrayal\, unrequited love\, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister\, Angelina\, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. \nInspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke\, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters\, both real and invented\, including Handful’s cunning mother\, Charlotte\, who courts danger in her search for something better. \nThis exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history\, through women whose struggles for liberation\, empowerment\, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-06-11/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job\, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? \nMonique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her\, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography\, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. \nSummoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment\, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ’80s\, and\, of course\, the seven husbands along the way\, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition\, unexpected friendship\, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star\, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion\, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-05-18/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T150000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.  Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact\, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely\, brilliant\, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with–of all things–her mind. True chemistry results.  \nBut like science\, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother\, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows\, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out\, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.   \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, shrewdly observant\, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters\, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-05-14/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000
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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s book selection is: This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan.  In This Is Your Mind on Plants\, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium\, caffeine\, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness\, and arbitrariness\, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or\, in the case of caffeine\, trying not to consume) them\, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness\, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? \nIn this unique blend of history\, science\, and memoir\, as well as participatory journalism\, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts\, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively–as a drug\, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants\, Pollan shows\, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds\, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago\, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants\, and our attraction to them through time\, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations\, the operations of our minds\, and our entanglement with the natural world.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T140000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in the (perhaps near) future when “firemen” burn books forbidden by a totalitarian “brave new world” regime. The hero\, according to Mr. Bradbury\, is “a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch.” Today\, when libraries and schools in this country and all over the world are still “burning” certain books\, Fahrenheit 451remains a brilliantly readable and suspenseful work of even greater impact and timeliness.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T180000
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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Here is the story of Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, who\, from her place in the store\, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator\, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-3/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T150000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. The Art of Racing in the Rain is a 2008 novel by Garth Stein\, narrated by a dog named Enzo who has a nearly human soul and uses car racing as a metaphor to understand life\, love\, and loss alongside his owner\, race car driver Denny Swift\, as they navigate family tragedy and a custody battle. The book explores themes of loyalty\, perseverance\, and the human condition through Enzo’s unique\, philosophical perspective\, becoming a New York Times bestseller.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2026-03-12/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T150000
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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
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T190000
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SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Poole. When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week\, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club\, however\, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art\, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne\, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby\, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn\, these seniors look deceptively benign–but when age makes you invisible\, secrets are so much easier to hide. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building\, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door–as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog–to save the building. Together\, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work\, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion/
LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
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