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Welcome! Are you interested in meeting new people? Do you want to de-stress with a fun activity and conversation? We firmly believe in “random fun” and “shenanigans.” This group is open to all who would like to participate in activities that include happy hours, games, dining out, music/art/theater events, book club, documentary club, outdoor events, volunteering, coffee/tea/dessert, and everything fun in between!
Attendance Policy - To Maintain Group Integrity & Member Accountability
- 2nd No-show: Automatic warning
- 3rd No-show: Member will be removed from the group
DEFINITION OF A NO-SHOW
For the purposes of this attendance policy, a "no-show" at a meetup is defined as:
- Failure of a member to attend an event without removing their name from the "Going" list.
Thank You - We look forward to meeting you! : )
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Where my Louise Penny fans at?!?Westbrook Performing Arts Center, Westbrook, ME
LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and coauthor with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller State of Terror. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (nine times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal. Louise Penny Author - Official site
Join Print: A Bookstore in welcoming the best-selling and much-beloved author Louise Penny to present the latest installment of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, The Grey Wolf, at The Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St, Westbrook, ME. Home - Westbrook Performing Arts Center (westbrookpac.org)
Ticket information:
Louise Penny presents THE GREY WOLF Tickets, Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Each ticket is $35 and will include 1 general admission seat at the event, and 1 copy of The Grey Wolf.
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The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF, the nineteenth novel in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.
Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they’re chasing becomes clear. If they fail the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.
Including Three Pines.Afterwards, we could get a bite or an adult beverage nearby if interested.
- Swirl, Smell, Sip, Read Book Club ☕️ 🍷 📚Pom's Thai Restaurant, South Portland, ME
This month, let's read "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride.
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.We'll meet at POM'S THAI RESTAURANT Pom's Thai Restaurant, Western Ave (Near Airport) South Portland, ME | 209 Western Ave Unit C, South Portland, ME 04106 | SmileDining
