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• Literary Club

  • When
    Thursday, July 12, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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  Beartown by Frederick Backman (discussion led by Patty Mahlstedt)

  

  The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with Beartown—an instant New York Times bestseller—about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything.
  People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
  Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.
  Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world. “Like Friday Night Lights, this is about more than youth sports; it’s part coming-of-age novel, part study of moral failure, and finally a chronicle of groupthink in which an unlikely hero steps forward to save more than one person from self-destruction” (Kirkus Reviews).
  

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• HHWC Summer Social

  • When
    Thursday, July 19, 2018
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Calle Onze, 222 W 11th Street

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  You’re invited to HHWC’s Summer Social!

  Thursday, July 19^th

  5:30 – 7:30pm

  Calle Onze, 222 W 11^th Street

  Guests Welcome!

  Please contact event Chair Heather Mitcham at heather.mitcham@live.com for more information.

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• General Meeting, Evening Group

  • When
    Tuesday, July 24, 2018
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

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  General Meeting, Evening Group 

  Tuesday, July 24th

  7:00 - 9:00 PM
  
   The Clubhouse, 1846 Harvard Street

  Members and guests are welcome.
   
  In addition to conducting club business, we are pleased to present featured speaker:
  Mary T. Callahan, Executive Director
  Girls on the Run of Greater Houston

  "We believe that EVERY GIRL is inherently FULL OF POWER and POTENTIAL. By knowing they are the leaders of their lives, these are the girls who WILL CHANGE THE WORLD."
  
  Girls on the Run inspires girls to recognize their inner strength and celebrate what makes them one of a kind. Over the course of the ten-week program, girls in 3rd-8th grade develop essential skills to help them navigate their worlds and establish a lifetime appreciation for health and fitness. The program culminates with girls positively impacting their communities through a service project and being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a celebratory 5K event.
  
  Our Hospitality Chair, Linda Navarro coordinates refreshments for our General Meetings and this quarter's theme is "Flamingle." If you would like to be part of the Hospitality Committee, please contact Linda.

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• Literary Club

  • When
    Thursday, August 09, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (discussion led by Jere Pfister)

  

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
  
  The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
  Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of Time’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book

  February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.
  
  From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
  
  Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
  

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• Literary Club

  • When
    Thursday, September 13, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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  Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (discussion led by Doris Murdock)

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 
  
  A New York Times Notable Book
  
  Named a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and Slate
  
  From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history
  

  In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

  Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

  As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
  

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• Literary Club

  • When
    Thursday, October 11, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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  Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (discussion led by Emily)

  
  

  The runaway New York Times bestseller!
  
  Named a Best Book of the Year by: 
  People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more!
  
  From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
  

  In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
  
  Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
  
  When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides.  Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
  
  Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
  

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• General Meeting, Evening Group

  • When
    Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

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  Evening Group General Meeting

  Mark your calendars for this quarterly meeting, where we will focus on club business and feature a guest speaker.

  More information to come!

  Join us Tuesday, October 23rd
  

  7:00 PM

  The Clubhouse, 1846 Harvard Street

  Members and guests are welcome.
  
  

  Our Hospitality Chair, Linda Navarro coordinates refreshments for our General Meetings. If you would like to be part of the Hospitality Committee, please contact Linda.

  
  

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• Witches Luncheon

  • When
    Friday, October 26, 2018
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    To Be Announced

  

  
  

  Witches Luncheon

  Friday, October 26th

  11:30am - 1pm

  Registration Required

  Details to be revealed in time...

  
  

  To volunteer for the committee, contact the Head Witches:

  Sandy Zeutschel, Bad Witch

  Peta Williams, Good Witch
  

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• Literary Club

  • When
    Thursday, November 08, 2018
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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  News of the World by Paulette Jiles (discussion led by Marian S.)

  
  

  National Book Award Finalist—Fiction

  In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

  In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

  In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.

  Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.

  Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.

  
  

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• Club Christmas Tree Decorating

  • When
    Saturday, November 24, 2018
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

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  Help us decorate the club Christmas tree for the holidays! All decorations and coffee are provided.

  Saturday, November 24th

  10am - til done (1-2 hours)

  The Clubhouse

  Members, Guests and Children welcome!

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• A visit with Santa

  • When
    Saturday, December 01, 2018
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse
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    1 registrant

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  Visit with Santa

  Enjoy children's crafts and refreshments as you visit with Santa. There is no charge for this public event. Parents are welcome to take their own photos as a photographer is not provided.

  Saturday, December 1st

  10am - 12pm

  The Clubhouse, 1846 Harvard Street
  

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• Literary Club Holiday Party

  • When
    Thursday, December 13, 2018
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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• Victorian Christmas Tea

  • When
    Sunday, December 16, 2018
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

  
  

  Join us for an enchanting afternoon that captures the magic of the holiday season!

  Sunday, December 16th

  2:30 - 5pm

  The Clubhouse

  Marvel at the holiday and winter inspired tablescapes that
  creative table hostesses arrange using their family place settings.

  Enjoy homemade savory and sweet tea favorites provided by our members.

  This signature event raises funds needed to preserve and maintain our beloved Historic Clubhouse.

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• General Meeting, Evening Group

  • When
    Tuesday, January 22, 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

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  Evening Group General Meeting

  Mark your calendars for this quarterly meeting, where we will focus on club business and feature a guest speaker.

  More information to come!

  Join us Tuesday, January 22nd
  

  7:00 PM

  The Clubhouse, 1846 Harvard Street

  Members and guests are welcome.
  
  

  Our Hospitality Chair, Linda Navarro coordinates refreshments for our General Meetings. If you would like to be part of the Hospitality Committee, please contact Linda.
  

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• General Meeting, Evening Group

  • When
    Tuesday, April 23, 2019
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Clubhouse

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  Evening Group General Meeting

  Mark your calendars for this quarterly meeting, where we will focus on club business and elect the 2019-2020 board of directors.

  More information to come!

  Join us Tuesday, April 23rd
  

  7:00 PM

  The Clubhouse, 1846 Harvard Street

  Members and guests are welcome.
  
  

  Our Hospitality Chair, Linda Navarro coordinates refreshments for our General Meetings. If you would like to be part of the Hospitality Committee, please contact Linda.
  

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