[MD-Sligo] Update on upcoming Sligo Creek Book Club meetings and books

[Jeff Baer]

Dear current members of the Sligo Creek Book Club and all Sligo Creek Chapter members (who are welcome to join our book club),
Happy New Year to everyone!
We have a lot planned already for the Book Club in 20024, including one newly added, upcoming session to announce. Here is the calendar for our virtual gatherings to discuss certain books. If you are not already on the book club roster, and would like to be added, just e-mail me (jabaer811 at outlook.com) or call me (410-499-0143) and we'd be happy to add you to our group, so that you receive all meeting details. More information on all books mentioned below in this e-mail can be found at the end of this message.
Newly announced session!​*​* We will be having a second discussion session on the book "I am Malala" It will be taking place on Sunday, January 14th at 2:30pm. Everyone, including those who attended the first discussion of that book, are welcome to join for this second conversation.

Then, here is the list of other upcoming books, as voted on by our book club members:
Meeting date and time: Sunday, January 21 @2:30pm. "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by author Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Books with meeting dates that have not yet been scheduled:

Our February book will be "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.
Our March book will be "Sprinkle with Murder" by Jenn McKinlay.
Our April book will be: "Saving Aziz: How a mission to rescue one became a calling to rescue thousands from the Taliban" by Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas.

All book details are below so you can go ahead and request your book cartridges or download the books from NLS/BARD (for free!) or find them on Amazon.

December's book, repeated in January on January 14, for a second discussion is:
(the shorter/Young Readers edition - since you now have only 8 days to read this one!): Title: "I am Malala, how one girl stood up for education and changed the world". By: Malala Yousafzai with co-author: Patricia McCormick,
Duration = approximately 5 hours.  BARD # DB 79878

Our main January book, discussion on January 21:
 "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Duration: 10 hours 44 minutes
BARD 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."

Our February, 2024 book : "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Available on BARD, DB #79182.  BARD note: "Contains violence and some descriptions of sex". (Yes - It's also available on Amazon's Audible service)
Duration: 16 hours and 3 minutes.
Note: It was the Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction in 2014.
Good Reads description: "Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II."

Our March, 2024 book is: "Sprinkle with Murder" by Jenn McKinlay. It's book #1 in the author's "Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series"
 BARD Info: DBC# 05021  (Yes - Also available on Amazon's Audible service)
duration: 7 hours and 49 minutes
Good Reads description:  "Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer, before the cupcake killer ices someone else."

Our April, 2024 book is "Saving Aziz: How a mission to rescue one became a calling to rescue thousands from the Taliban" by Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas
BARD DB #115208  (Yes - Also available on Amazon's Audible service)
duration: 6 hours and 36 minutes
Good Reads description:
"It was the right thing to do. And someone had to do it. Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during Chad's eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. More than once, Aziz saved Chad's life. And then he needed Chad to save his. When President Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States would be making a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, Robichaux knew he had to get Aziz and his family out before Taliban forces took over the country. As the rescue team began to go to work, they became aware of thousands more--US citizens, Afghan allies, women, and children--facing persecution. This gripping account of two war heroes and friends puts human hearts and names alongside the headlines of one of the most harrowing moments in our history, giving you a closer look Saving Aziz is more than a story of war and it's about breaking down prejudice and apathy--and why risking it all is worth it when it comes to loving one another."
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