December 15th @ 1:30 - Best Sellers Club - The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

 

Best Seller Club

Tuesday December 15 at 1:30 pm. Registration starts November 30th.

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan KamaliIn 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.

Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”

But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life, and Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. 

 

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COMING SOON: Winter Reading Challenge!

 

 

Oh, the weather outside is frightful…so it is the perfect time to snuggle under a blanket with a good book and to complete the Reader Services Winter Reading Challenge.

The challenge will begin on November 1st and run until February 28th with new challenges each month, culminating in a gathering to celebrate the end of winter.

Sign up online or at the reference desk starting November 1st.

For more information, visit the Reader Services Page: https://eastmeadow.info/books-reading/reader-services/

November 24th @ 7:00PM - It's a Mystery! Mystery/Thriller Book Club - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

 

It’s a Mystery! Mystery/Thriller Book Club

Tuesday November 24 at 7:00 pm. Registration starts November 2nd.

 

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica and home to the world’s largest seed bank. With sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

 

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Madeline McKnight Signs Off by Evan Brooke

 

Madeline McKnight, dubbed the Bitch of Wall Street after her spectacular takedown on the Lou Dobbs Show for predicting the dot-com bubble bust, is dying of cancer. As she is no ordinary woman, she deals with her inevitable demise in her own way. This includes three goals that she sets for herself to best use the time she has left-she resolves to settle outstanding debts (which are not all necessarily monetary); give Bri Davis the means to afford a good life and so begin to make reparations to her mother, Madeline's estranged best friend; and open the Hetty Green Museum in New York to honor her turn of the century mentor who was known as the Witch of Wall Street. A tall order in a short period of time.

 

 

Bri Davis has had to cope with a mother suffering from phantom pain all her life. Her mom is completely unreliable, to the point where she stole Bri's college tuition as she is trying to complete her nursing degree, using it on liquor and narcotics. As Bri gets further in debt, she can't see her way out of this downward spiral, until she gets a letter from her mom's worst enemy. Madeline Knight, or Aunt Maddie as Bri used to call her godmother, has a proposition:

If Bri would pause her nursing education and help Madeline as she deteriorates from refusing cancer treatment, the compensation package would be extraordinary, with a two-million-dollar bonus for staying till Madeline's death. If Bri accepts the position, she will live with Madeline as a caregiver and also be expected to work on the Hetty Green Museum-it was an offer too good to pass up. As she and her mother haven't spoken for years, her mother’s hatred of Madeline for ruining her financially won’t be a factor in Bri’s acceptance. She travels to a luxurious mountain cabin in the Poconos to begin her job and soon discovers how quirky her new boss will be.

Both Madeline and Hetty were forerunners of women breaking the glass ceiling and achieving fame and riches in the cutthroat world of Wall Street finance. They also both suffered the consequences of being successful women in a man’s world and having to survive the inevitable envy and abuse that goes with bucking the system. The difference is that while Madeline is the main character of this novel, Hetty Green actually did exist in New York and made her fortune predicting stock market trends. Author Brooke should be commended for resurrecting Hetty Green and bringing her the attention she deserves. The reluctant partnership of Madeline and Bri is a refreshing take on female bonding-prickly and difficult is so much more interesting than the sugary sweet relationship used in most women’s novels. For those who like their heroines quirky and real, this novel will be a sad and triumphant character study of a woman used to living life and leaving it on her own terms.

Written by: Donna Ballard

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