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Thursday Evening Book Group-Thursday,
May 29 at 7:00pm. This month the group is reading Wicked
by Gregory Maguire. In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the
Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled
witch. Instead, she's an insecure, unfortunately green Munchkinlander
who's willing to take radical steps to unseat the tyrannical Wizard of
Oz.
Thursday Morning Book Group-Thursday,
June 12 at 10:30. This month the group is reading A Thousand
Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini. The story covers
three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny
through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a
wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old
Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child.
Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart
and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed
by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation.
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