Anna Pilato – founder & chair

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A book club for everyone…

Please email me if you will not be attending the book club meeting, and if not attending… please include how you would like to receive book #26.

Please remember to bring your borrowed library book “The Stars Are Fire”

I will have copies for everyone of book #26: “The Woman in the Castle” by Jessica Shattluck.

Hope you are enjoying book #25: “The Stars Are Fire”  by  Anita Shreve to be reviewed at June 15, 2026 meeting.

“In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres–the largest fire in Maine’s history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two young children, the women watch in horror as their houses go up in flames, then walk into the ocean as a last resort. They spend the night frantically trying to save their children. When dawn comes, they have miraculously survived, but their lives are forever changed: homeless, penniless, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists. As Grace awaits news of her husband’s fate, she is thrust into a new world in which she must make a life on her own, beginning with absolutely nothing–she must find work, a home, a way to provide for her children. In the midst of devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms–joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain–and her spirit soars. And then the unthinkable happens, and Grace’s bravery is tested as never before.”

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