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Read around the world book club

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Read Around the World Book Club

2025-01-28 17:00:00 2025-01-28 18:00:00 America/Chicago Read Around the World Book Club Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Homewood Public Library - Room 108

Tuesday, January 28
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-01-28 17:00:00 2025-01-28 18:00:00 America/Chicago Read Around the World Book Club Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Homewood Public Library - Room 108

Homewood Public Library

Room 108

Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Please join us for Homewood Library's latest book club featuring books and authors from around the world.

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate façade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son.

Put a copy on hold at: https://jeffa.na.iiivega.com/search/card?id=b34a458d-18a5-5ca4-801c-ed81fd5cdec9&entityType=FormatGroup

or a digital copy at:https://www.hoopladigital.com/

(audio and e-book available)

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Groups | Arts & Lit | Adult Events |

TAGS: | read around the world | book group | Adults |

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