Let's Talk About Books: The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

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Book Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club that is currently meeting via Zoom.  


The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.


For our March meeting, we will be reading The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan with the hour-long discussion being led by Ross Brooks.  Copies are available at the main desk for checkout.

Synopsis:

In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear's intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves - murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect "pure-blood" Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin's horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martels' story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family's incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized

A copy of the meeting's link will go out the Monday leading up to the event.  Another email with the meeting's link will also go out the Friday morning of the event.
 

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