Invited WOW friends will gather to view My Octopus Teacher a 90-minute video documentary illustrating how a filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
The January book to be discussed is The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel. This is a story of the French Resistance told through the eyes of a woman who used her artistic talents to forge documents. This true story details how hundreds of Jewish children were able to flee the Nazis in World […]
The February book club discussion is around Radium Girls by Kate Moore. This is a shocking heartbreaking story of corporate greed and denial. Hundreds of girls toil amidst the dust of radium in dial factories. This was considered a lucky job until they began to fall ill from it. We always welcome new members, even […]
The March book is When Crickets Cry, by Charles Martin. A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both hearts. It begins in a lemonade stand in a sleepy southern town. In the end they will both know there are painful reasons why crickets […]
The April book is “The Secret Life of Sunflowers”, by Marta Molnar. Based on a true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent Van Gogh’s sister-in-law. When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary, the pages are full of surprises. The first is that the diary belonged to Johanna Bonger, who inherited all of Van […]
The book selection for May is Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson. In present day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her 2 children, Byron and Benny. It’s a black cake made from a family recipe with a long history and includes a voice recording. Eleanor shares a tumultuous story full of […]
June’s WOW Book Club selection is “The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” by Robert Dugoni. Born with red pupils, Sam Hill was called a “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates. Forty years later, Sam, a small town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything is by design- especially not the tragedy that caused […]
The July book club selection is Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. Based on one of America's most notorious real life scandals in which Georgia Tannes, director of a Memphis based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country. We always welcome new members, even if you’ve never […]
The August WOW Book Club read is Verity by Colleen Hoover. A sublimely creepy psychological thriller. Writer Lowen Ashleigh is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete the remaining books in a successful series his best selling injured author, wife Verity, is unable to complete. Lowen uncovers a bone chilling unfinished autobiography that was never intended […]
The WOW Book Club read for September is The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See. In their remote village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and farming tea. Slowly Li-Yang, one of the few educated girls in their mountain, begins to reject customs that shaped her early life. She […]
For the October meeting we will release the 2025 book list voted by our book club members. The WOW book club read for October is The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. "'Welcome to the family,' Nina Westchester says as I shake her elegant hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my […]
This month’s book is The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis. An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found. Soline Roussel is well schooled and in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and […]
Our December book selection is Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah--the heartwarming story of a woman at a crossroads, caught between two lives, who finds a second chance at happiness. During our discussion, we will enjoy POTLUCK APPETIZERS. Bring your own beverage. Dessert will be provided. Please arrive between 12:45-1:00 so we can meet you […]
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