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Seaside Book Club – April Meeting

May 2, 2023

by Deborah Rogers - We were fortunate to get our hands on a Library Book Club set of Brian Thomas Isaac's debut novel All the Quiet Places to discuss last month. Lucky because it was a book that provoked a long discussion, and lucky because Isaac was part of the incredible author line-up at the …

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Book Club – November Meeting

November 24, 2022

by Deborah Rogers - Permanent Astonishment is Tomson Highway's first installment of a planned five-volume memoir series. It covers his early years, from birth in sub-Artic Canada to age 15. Highway is a concert pianist, a playwright and a novelist; he's the speaker of many languages, and today splits his life between Canada and Italy, …

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September Book Club

September 29, 2022

by Deborah Rogers - A world of extreme wealth and inflexible social rules was the setting of our September read. In her historical fiction The Social Graces, Renée Rosen explores the "Gilded Age" in a New York awash with money, and the developing conflict between the "Knickerbockers" with their family wealth, and the new money …

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