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Coffee Talk Book Discussion Online

Join our popular Coffee Talk Book Discussion to talk about new and upcoming bestsellers! Book club meetings will be hybrid, taking place in Meeting Room A&B at the Bowling Green Library and online via Zoom. Registration is required. To register, call (419) 352-5050, email woodref@wcdpl.org, or fill out the form below.

May 19

Join us to discuss We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride.

Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.

But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband's freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend.

Like Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult's Small Great ThingsWe Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it's a story of enduring friendship—a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.

June 16

Join us to discuss Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Dates & Times:
11:00am - 12:00pm, Thursday, May 19, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm, Thursday, June 16, 2022
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Meeting Room A&B
Campus:
Bowling Green Library
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Adult Book Club     Information Services  
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
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