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Page Turner's Book Group

Page Turner's Book Group In-Person / Online

The Page Turner's Book Group meets to discuss literary and popular fiction novels. All meetings are hybrid - in library and on Zoom.  For more information please contact Janette at pardoj@waynepubliclibrary.org

Copies of the book available in the library at the reference desk and via Overdrive-Libby. 

The group will meet at James W Roe Pool at 133 Garside Road, Wayne, NJ.

In case of rain, the group will meet in the Wayne Public Library - Preakness Room. 

 

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue 

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.

The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice—if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.

Date:
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 Show more dates
Time:
10:30am - 12:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
James W. Roe Memorial Pool
Online:
This is an online event.
Event URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028511825?pwd=QW85ODI1Z3Vpa0FBeTM4UDBraTg2UT09
Audience:
  Adults     Senior Adults  
Categories:
  Book Discussion  

Event Organizer

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Janette Pardo

Janette is the Assistant Director. She is responsible for ordering books for the adult fiction, nonfiction and large print collections. Janette has a background in archival processing and preservation and is currently hard at work processing the Lockett Local History Collection.  

An avid reader, Janette runs the Romantic Fiction (first Wednesday of the month) and the Page Turners (second Wednesday of the month) book groups. She is also a supporter of the romance genre and will gladly help "match you" with the perfect romance novel.  

In 2021, Janette launched the Virtual Author Chat series where she chats with local authors about their writing and their path to publication. All of the chats have been recorded and are available to watch on the library's YouTube channel.

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