BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20230713T000000Z DTEND:20230713T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Novel Thoughts Book Club: Shiner DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss Shiner by Amy Jo Burns. \n\nBooks are available at the Adult Help Desk. \n\nAbout the book: \n\nOn a lush mountaintop trapped in time\, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.\n\n\n\nAn hour from the closest West Virginia mining town\, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car\, no mailbox\, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday\, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station\, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye\, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community\, over Wren and her mother.\n\n\n\nBut over the course of one summer\, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter\, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend. And with that newfound knowledge\, Wren can imagine a different future for herself than she has been told to expect.\n\n\n\nRich with epic love and epic loss\, and diving deep into a world that is often forgotten but still part of America\, Shiner reveals the hidden story behind two generations' worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. Amy Jo Burns brings us a smoldering\, taut debut novel about modern female myth-making in a land of men-and one young girl who must ultimately open her eyes.\n\n\n\nTO REGISTER CLICK HERE X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us as we discuss Shiner by Amy Jo Burns. \;

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Books are available at the Adult Help Desk. \;

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About the book: \;

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On a lush mountaintop trapped in time\, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.
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\nAn hour from the closest West Virginia mining town\, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car\, no mailbox\, and no visitors-except for her mother'\;s lifelong best friend. Every Sunday\, Wren'\;s father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station\, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye\, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community\, over Wren and her mother.
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\nBut over the course of one summer\, a miracle performed by Wren'\;s father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter\, Wren must uncover the truth of her father'\;s mysterious legend and her mother'\;s harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend. And with that newfound knowledge\, Wren can imagine a different future for herself than she has been told to expect.
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\nRich with epic love and epic loss\, and diving deep into a world that is often forgotten but still part of America\, \;Shiner \;reveals the hidden story behind two generations'\; worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. Amy Jo Burns brings us a smoldering\, taut debut novel about modern female myth-making in a land of men-and one young girl who must ultimately open her eyes.
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\nTO REGISTER CLICK HERE
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\n LOCATION:Wauconda Area Public Library 801 N. Main St. Wauconda\, IL 60084 UID:e.2057.13028 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260531T145651Z URL:https://business.waucondachamber.org/events/details/novel-thoughts-book-club-shiner-13028 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR