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• Literary Club Meeting - August

  • When
    Thursday, August 13, 2020
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    7:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  The Invention of Wings 

  by Sue Monk Kidd

  Led by Susanne Perron
  

  
  

  A novel inspired by the historical abolitionists and women's rights activists Sarah and Angelina Grimke:  Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.  On Sarah’s eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty-five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.

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• Literary Club Meeting - September

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    Thursday, September 10, 2020
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    7:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  The Pearl that Broke Its Shell 

  by Nadia Hashimi

  Led by Ellen Bell
  

  Crisscrossing in time, this novel interweaves the tales of two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters.  A century earlier, her great-great grandmother, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way.

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• Literary Club Meeting - October

  • When
    Thursday, October 08, 2020
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    7:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  Olive, Again 

  by Elizabeth Strout

  Led by Gloria Wilson 
  

  Strout resurrects Olive Kitteridge, the endearing curmudgeon from Crosby, Maine, in thirteen interconnected stories that remind us that you’re never too old to grow up. As the book opens, Olive is being wooed, in a manner of speaking, by fellow widow Jack Kennison. Even he is at a loss to explain the precise reasons for his affection for her, but as we see Olive fumbling through everyday life—still grappling with its disappointments and mysteries—we recognize a kindred soul.

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• Literary Club Meeting - November

  • When
    Thursday, November 12, 2020
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    7:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  The Woman's Hour

  The Great Fight to Win the Vote 

  by Elaine Weiss

  Led by Betty Chapman
  

  Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have approved the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote; one last state--Tennessee--is needed for women's voting rights to be the law of the land. The suffragists face vicious opposition from politicians, clergy, corporations, and racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the nation's moral collapse. And in one hot summer, they all converge for a confrontation, replete with booze and blackmail, betrayal and courage. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman's Hour is the gripping story of how America's women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

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• Literary Club Holiday Party

  • When
    Wednesday, December 09, 2020
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    7:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  Literary Club Holiday Party 2020

  Wednesday, December 9

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  Thursday, December 10

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• Literary Club - Books and Tea Sunday

  • When
    Sunday, January 17, 2021
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    2:30 PM (CST)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  Books and Tea Sunday

  Drops of Cerulean 

  by Dawn Adams Cole
  

  Spanning the years 1930–2014, Drops of Cerulean chronicles the lives of Ilona, the daughter of a Greek restaurateur, who marries into a prominent Houston family; her son, Cadmus, who becomes a professor and then moves into a retirement home after his husband passes away; and Delphina, an anxiety-ridden woman with a mysterious recurring dream. Ilona and Cadmus have a falling out when Cadmus is a young man, and before they are able to reconcile, Ilona dies. Cadmus is plagued with guilt and feels responsible for the death of his mother. Two worlds collide when, years later, Delphina comes to understand that she had been Ilona, Cadmus’s mother, in her previous life. 

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• Literary Club Meeting - February

  • When
    Thursday, February 11, 2021
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    7:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    HHWC Clubhouse - 1846 Harvard Street
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  Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole 

  by Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers

  Led by Jessica Baker
  

  Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via email with doctors in the United States, she performed a biopsy on herself, and in July began chemotherapy treatments to ensure her survival until condition permitted her rescue in October. This is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment; a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity; and, at its core, a powerfully moving drama of love and loss, of one woman's voyage of self-discovery through an extraordinary struggle for survival.

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