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See all- Romantasy Book ClubOrlando Public Library | Orange County Library System, Orlando, FL
Join Orlando Public Library for the Romantasy Book Club, a bi-monthly book club focused on all things romance and fantasy! For this book club, we'll be reading A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen. Discuss the July selection, enjoy fun bookish activities, and make new friends!
Ages 18+, registration required. This is a free event and you do not need an Orange County Library System library card to participate.
Please register here.Card holders can borrow a copy of A Fate Inked in Blood here.
From the book description:
A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back.
Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess’s blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack. It was foretold such a magic would unite the fractured nation of Skaland beneath the one who controls the shield maiden’s fate.
Believing he’s destined to rule Skaland as king, the fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders Bjorn to protect her from their enemies. Desperate to prove her strength, Freya must train to fight and learn to control her magic, all while facing perilous tests set by the gods. The greatest test of all, however, may be resisting her forbidden attraction to Bjorn. If Freya succumbs to her lust for the charming and fierce warrior, she risks not only her own destiny but the fate of all the people she swore to protect.
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In July the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these -- the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy -- irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy plays out in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.
This event occurs online through Zoom. An email will be sent before the event with more information on how to join. To receive the Zoom link, please register at the Library's website, https://attend.ocls.org/event/13294198
Virtual access to this title is available in both eBook and Audiobook formats.
Print Book 1 : Print Book 2 : Overdrive E-book : Overdrive Audio : Hoopla E-book : Hoopla Audio
* The two print editions are the same book, but different publishers and introductions
* Some formats currently have waiting lists - Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book ClubLink visible for attendees
In August the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. What if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
This event occurs online through Zoom. An email will be sent before the event with more information on how to join. To receive the Zoom link, please register at the Library's website, https://attend.ocls.org/event/13295066
Virtual access to this title is available in both eBook and Audiobook formats.
Book : CD Book : Large Print Book : Overdrive E-book : Overdrive Audio :
* Some formats currently have waiting lists - Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book ClubLink visible for attendees
In September the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina. Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment leads to repercussions for Mina that echo through the decades, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.
This event occurs online through Zoom. An email will be sent before the event with more information on how to join. To receive the Zoom link, please register at the Library's website, https://attend.ocls.org/event/13295287
Virtual access to this title is available in both eBook and Audiobook formats.
Book : Large Print Book : Overdrive E-book : Overdrive Audio : Hoopla E-book : Hoopla Audio : Freading E-book
