Over Forty Book Club

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community-heaven and earth-that sustain us.

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.

DON'T MISS OUR BOOK CLUB ANNUAL HOLIDAY TEA!!!!!
BOOK DISCUSSION: THE GO-BETWEEN, BY L.P. HARTLEY

ENJOY A SELECTION OF HARNEY & SONS FINE TEAS ALONG WITH JON LEVY'S HOMEMADE SCONES SERVED WITH CLOTTED CREAM & JAM, SMOKED SALMON TEA SANDWICHES, EGG SALAD TEA SANDWICHES, AND BAKEWELL TART.

****Please bring a food item either savory or sweet that goes along with Afternoon Tea. Store bought/Homemade it's all good!
For example: Shortbread cookies, or any variety of cookie or holiday cookie, quick breads/tea cakes like banana bread, pumpkin bread, Victoria Sandwich, coffee cake, or any variety muffin, any type of Tea Sandwiches...Cucumber, Chicken Salad, Ham etc...

****The Book Exchange: Please bring one, WRAPPED, gently used or new FICTION book. It should be a GREAT book, maybe you loved it, or heard great things about it, but it should be a book that most people in this group probably don't have, or hopefully haven't read before. We draw numbers and take turns choosing from the wrapped books.****

**** This year, instead of a cookie exchange, since everyone will be bringing something to share at the Tea, we will be dividing up into teams and playing: The 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time Charades.****

DON'T FORGET TO RSVP FOR THIS GREAT EVENT!

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.

Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.

Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who were spies.

After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives.

Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it.

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.