Harry’s Trees - December CC Book Club Selection

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Ayesha at Last and The One - February CC Book Club Selection

Are you a hopeless romantic when it comes to finding a soulmate, or do you view matchmaking as one of the Dark Arts? Join us for our February discussion, as we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Love-Done-Right / Love-Gone-Wrong duet of Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin and The One by John Marrs. Ayesha at Last is a witty, contemporary spin on Pride and Prejudice, re-imagined as a love story set in an Indian-Muslim community. Ayesha and Khalid’s romance charmingly navigates "the intersections of identity, religion, culture, tradition, familial expectations, and personal dreams.” (Amazon) “Ayesha at Last’s fictional universe acts as a microcosm of a diverse and oft-misunderstood community, and Jalaluddin’s compassionate and sensitive writing about it radiates off the page.”—NPR The One is a psychological thriller that imagines a world where matches are made through DNA — just a quick mouth swab and you’re matched with your perfect partner, the one you’re genetically made for. The n…