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Beddington Book Club

This club is in its sixth year, led by Cindy Wiebe, librarian and bookworm.
Where?  We meet at the Beddington Theatre Arts Centre, 2nd Floor Board Room 

How to attend? We encourage potential members to attend a few meetings as a guest, to find out more about us. 

JOIN AS A GUEST

Ready to join? You are welcome to start anytime through the year. If you are not already a member of the Beddington Heights Community Association, we ask you to become a member for only $20. If you don't live in Beddington, you are still welcome to register for a Friends of Beddington membership.

NOT A MEMBER? 

REGISTER FOR THE BOOK CLUB HERE

Past Books

February 20, 2024
The Lake of Dreams
by Kim Edwards

What We're Reading

March 19, 2024
Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours 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 teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just 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 rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends 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 an unexpected and devastating cost .

– from Goodreads.com

April 16, 2024
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could
only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure.

– from Goodreads.com

May 21, 2024
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
by Glendy Vandura

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the
stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay―just until she learns more about Ursa’s past. Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only
read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore? Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult
choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.

– from Goodreads.com.

June 18, 2024
Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult

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Contact Information

Beddington Heights Community Association
403-305-6642
bhca@beddingtoncommunity.ca

Beddington After School Program
403-295-8837
beddingtonbasp@gmail.com

Beddington Theatre Arts Centre / Room Bookings
587-329-9545

Location

375 Bermuda Drive NW,
Calgary, Alberta, T3K 2J5

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