[NFBSATX] FW: iBUG VILA Book Club – August 13

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Subject: iBUG VILA Book Club – August 13

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Please join us for the next meeting of the VILA Book Club sponsored by iBUG Today. 

WHEN:  Thursday, August 13, 2026, 7:00 to 8:30 PM Central Time

We will be discussing the following book.
Great Alone by Kristin Hanna, DB90090
1974. Former Vietnam prisoner of war Ernt Allbright moves his family, including wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni, north to Alaska. While the weather is temperate, the family survives on the generosity of locals. But when winter descends, Ernt's mental health fractures.15 hours, 3 minutes

Facilitator:  Gail Greenberg

The VILA Book Club is held on the Zoom conference platform.
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Future book readings for the next couple of months are as follows. Note:  all books are available on NLS BARD for U.S. citizens.

September 10
Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid (DeAnn Noriega), DB129909
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. 9 hours, 55 minutes

October 8
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (Gail Greenberg), DB36063, By the time thirteen-year-old Dolores Price is raped by her neighbor, she is already disillusioned by her father's desertion, her mother's breakdown, and a hostile reception at school. Dolores retreats into constant food and television until guilt over another tragedy forces her to reenter the world as an obese college student and start the long path to recovery. 15 hours, 46 minutes

Looking forward to seeing you at the book club.

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