Book Group
Join us to discuss books in a small group setting. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month via Zoom. We check in at 10:45 AM, then start the discussion at 11:00 AM, which lasts for about an hour. We select the books as a group every August, choosing from all genres. The discussion is always stimulating, lively and respectful.
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To join the meeting on Zoom, go to our online calendar by clicking below.
For more information please contact Ann Nelson by clicking the button below.
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Upcoming Books
December: No Book Group meeting
January: Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson
February: The Dry by Jane Harper
March: Raising Hare by Chloe Walton
April: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
May: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
June: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
July: No Book Group meeting
August: Book selection meeting
Recent Reads
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Calahan Henry
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Long Island by Colm Toibin
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
James by Percival Everett
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
About our January book:
Empress of the Nile
by Lynne Olson
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War
"A female version of the Indiana Jones story . . . Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] was a daredevil whose real-life antics put Hollywood fiction to shame."--The Guardian
In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples--including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art--would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir. It was an unimaginably complex project that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground.
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Willful and determined, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a member of the French Resistance in World War II she survived imprisonment by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples she defied two of the most daunting leaders of the postwar world, Egypt's President Abdel Nasser and France's President Charles de Gaulle. As she told one reporter, "You don't get anywhere without a fight, you know."
Desroches-Noblecourt also received help from a surprising source. Jacqueline Kennedy, America's new First Lady, persuaded her husband to help fund the rescue effort. After a century and a half of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt helped instead to preserve a crucial part of that cultural heritage.