Intercontinental Book Club with Clonmel

Intercontinental Readers is a Zoom book club that joins Peoria book club members with book club members in our Sister City of Clonmel, Ireland.  The group meets at 11am every three months at the Main Library in the Lower Level 2 Conference Room. They discuss books by both American and Irish authors. Please contact Terry Tate for more information. 

March 13 (12:00 p.m.) –  Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner

An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some to flourish…and others to falter.

June 5  (11:00 a.m.) – Love by Roddy Doyle

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

September 4 (11:00 a.m.) — West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.

December 4 (11:00 a.m.) — The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.