ONLINE ONLY: The Library Book Club at East Bend | |
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Event Type: Adult Program Age Group(s): Adult Date: 5/18/2021 Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 1:00 PM Description: Discuss "A Spark of Light" by Jodi Picoult online using Zoom.
Library: East Bend Public LibraryJoin us online by copy and pasting the following link: https://zoom.us/j/94319852855 About the Book: The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. *zm* Contact: Roxanne M. Renteria Contact Number: 541-312-1091 Presenter: Roxanne M. Renteria, Community Librarian Link: Join on Zoom |