[MD-Sligo] Sligo Creek Chapter Book Club - Announcement of upcoming books for discussion!

[Chikodinaka Oguledo]

add my name please 2the bookclub nls / sligo book club

On 9/20/23, Jeff Baer via MD-Sligo <md-sligo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dear all Sligo Creek Chapter Members,
> At our Sligo Creek book club meeting this past weekend, the club discussed
> one book and then laid out our schedule for upcoming books that we will
> tackle together. All Chapter members are invited to join us as desired for
> any or all of the books. Just let me know if you would like to be added to
> the list of book club members who receive the call-in numbers and
> reminders.
> All book details for the books mentioned in this e-mail can be found at
> towards end of the message. Our upcoming book schedule is:
>
>   1.  Sunday, October 8 at 2:30 pm is the time we will meet virtually to
> discuss the book titled "The Restaurant". It is a shorter read about sisters
> thrown together into an unusual situation, and is already getting good
> reviews from the book club members who have finished it.
>   2.  Our November book discussion (date and time to be determined) will be
> on "Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to climb farther than
> the eye can see: my story " by Erik Wehenmayer. The book club chose this
> book, which most of us will read during the month of October, in honor of
> October being Blind Equality Achievement Month.
>   3.  Our December book discussion (date and time to be determined) will be
> on "I am Malala: How one girl stood up for education and changed the world "
> by Malala Yousafza
>   4.
> Our January book discussion will cover Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for
> Murderers" by author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
> Book summaries and more details to help in finding the books is just below.
> All books can be accessed for free via the NLS BARD system!
>
>  If you are interested in joining our book club, please contact me, Jeff
> Baer, at jabaer811 at outlook.com or via cell phone at (410)499-0143
>
> Book Details section:
>
>   1.  The Restaurant" by Pamela M. Kelley. BARD/NLS info: DB#101174,
> Duration = 5 hours and 33 minutes. Yes, it's also available via Amazon's
> Audible subscription service, in addition to BARD/NLS.
>
> Good Reads Description: "Three sisters. An inherited Nantucket restaurant.
> One year before they can sell. Mandy, Emma and Jill are as close as three
> sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up together on
> Nantucket, but Mandy is the only one that stayed.
> Jill lives a glamorous life in Manhattan as a co-owner of a successful
> executive search firm. Never married, she is in her mid-thirties and lives
> in a stunning, corner condo with breathtaking views of the city and Hudson
> river. Everyone thinks there's something going on with her partner, Nick,
> because as a workaholic, she spends more time with him than anyone else. But
> there's never been anything but friendship between them and Nick loves being
> a bachelor in NYC.
> Emma lives in Arizona and is an elementary school teacher and aspiring
> photographer. She met her college professor husband, Peter, in grad school
> and they've been married for over fifteen years. In recent years, she's
> noticed that Peter has grown distant. But when he shares a surprising
> secret, she doesn't see it coming and her world is turned upside down.
> Mandy followed her high school boyfriend, Cory to Boston College, and after
> graduation, they married and Cory joined a successful hedge fund in Boston,
> while Mandy stayed home and had two children, Blake and Brooke. They moved
> home to Nantucket when Cory opened a competing hedge fund. Now that the
> children are older, Mandy is eager to do more than coordinate local charity
> events. But Cory doesn't want her to work. He thinks it doesn't reflect well
> on him and appearances are everything to Cory. Though when Mandy finds a
> second cell phone in his gym bag, she begins to question what is really
> going on.
> When their beloved grandmother, Ethel Ferguson passes peacefully in her
> sleep a week before her ninety-ninth birthday, she leaves them quite a
> surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learn that she was the
> silent owner of Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular year-round
> restaurants.
> There is of course, a catch--she left the restaurant equally to Mandy, Emma,
> and Jill--and also to Paul, the restaurant chef for the past fifteen years.
> And before they can sell, all three girls must work at the restaurant for
> one year--or their shares of the restaurant will go to Paul. The same Paul
> that broke one of their hearts many years ago."
>
> 2) Erik Wehenmayer's, "Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to
> climb farther than the eye can see: my story "
> Duration: 12 hours and 3 minutes:
> DB 51505 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
> Good Reads description:
> "Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoschisis, a degenerative eye disorder
> that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined
> to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting
> life.
> In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past
> the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He
> speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through
> the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would
> restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that
> distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the
> world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing
> reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done).
>
> From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua
> and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story
> about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding
> the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life
> into something truly miraculous."
>
> 3) "I am Malala: How one girl stood up for education and changed the world
> "
> Author: Malala Yousafzai
> Duration: 4 hours and 55 minutes
> DB 79878 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
> Good Reads description:
> "When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl
> spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right
> to an education.
>
> On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the
> ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding
> the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.
>
> Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary
> journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United
> Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful
> protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
>
> I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism,
> of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner,
> championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of
> brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that
> prizes sons.
>
> I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to
> inspire change in the world."
>
> 4) "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"
> Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
> Duration: 10 hours 44 minutes
> DB# 113039  (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
> Good Reads description:
> Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker.
> Detective?
> Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than
> sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the
> internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).
> But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her
> tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things.
> Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because
> nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with
> time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.
> Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth."
>
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