BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lampworking | Community | Chat | The Glass Dragons - ECPv6.16.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Lampworking | Community | Chat | The Glass Dragons
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://theglassdragons.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lampworking | Community | Chat | The Glass Dragons
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20260401T144428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T144428Z
UID:10000889-1777404600-1777408200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Dragons Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \nVisit the Book Club’s Facebook Group to find out about future reads. \nWe also have a Goodreads Book Club Group. \n Welcome to the Glass Dragons Book Club! The intent of this book club is for the pure enjoyment of the written word. The theme is Books. Any title may be suggested. Book Club is about conversation\, friendship\, and books! This is open to anybody who likes to read. Membership is not required. \nIf you would like to participate in the online discussions in our Zoom room\, please send an email to bookclub@theglassdragons.com
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/dragons-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Book-Club-Banner-66-e1772760984424.webp
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20260201T041237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260201T041237Z
UID:10000856-1774985400-1774989000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:The Glass Dragons Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Glass Dragons Book Club! The intent of this book club is for the pure enjoyment of the written word. The theme is Books. Any title may be suggested. Book Club is about conversation\, friendship\, and books! This is open to anybody who likes to read. Membership is not required. \nContact us for Zoom Room information.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/the-glass-dragons-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Book-Club-Banner-64-e1767153967299.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20260201T041153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260201T041153Z
UID:10000855-1771961400-1771965000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:The Glass Dragons Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Glass Dragons Book Club! The intent of this book club is for the pure enjoyment of the written word. The theme is Books. Any title may be suggested. Book Club is about conversation\, friendship\, and books! This is open to anybody who likes to read. Membership is not required. \nContact us for Zoom Room information.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/the-glass-dragons-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Book-Club-Banner-60-e1764557953183.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250901T030852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T030852Z
UID:10000718-1769542200-1769545800@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - The Glassblower - Petra Durst-Benning
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \n(The first book in the Glassblower series) \nIn the village of Lauscha in Germany\, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass\, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night\, his three daughters must learn to fend for themselves. While feisty Johanna takes a practical approach to looking for work\, Ruth follows her heart\, aiming to catch the eye of a handsome young villager. But it is dreamy\, quiet Marie who has always been the most captivated by the magic—and sparkling possibilities—of the craft of glassblowing. As the spirited sisters work together to forge a brighter future for themselves on their own terms\, they learn not only how to thrive in a man’s world\, but how to remain true to themselves—and their hearts—in the process. \nGenre: Historical Fiction \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-the-glassblower-petra-durst-benning/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Book-Club-Banner-54-e1756695516799.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251230T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251230T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250901T030623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T030623Z
UID:10000717-1767123000-1767126600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square - Ali McNamara
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \nESCAPE THIS CHRISTMAS WITH THE ULTIMATE FESTIVE ROMANCE . . . \nWanted: experienced writer to record the history of one house and its family.\nBed and board provided\, the successful applicant must love Christmas. \nElle is rudderless\, jobless and she’s soon to be homeless. When she spies an advert that looks like it could answer all her problems\, she’s devastated to see one huge catch: Elle definitely does not love Christmas. \nOn Mistletoe Square\, an eccentric elderly woman and her unconventional housekeeper have an enormous Christmas tree and a box of delicate decorations collected over what must be centuries. With each decoration comes a story and with each story a breath-taking glimpse of a Christmas past. \nOne Christmas at a time\, the house’s history is brought vividly to life for Elle. But the more she sees of the family’s past\, the more she wonders where and how their story might end. And what of her own story? Is it possible that what felt like an ending might have been leading her here . . . to a new beginning? \nGenre: Paranormal Romance \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-it-always-snows-on-mistletoe-square-ali-mcnamara/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Book-Club-Banner-53-e1756695544483.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250901T030023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T030023Z
UID:10000716-1764099000-1764102600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - High Strung - Janice Peacock
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \n(The first book in the Glass Bead Mystery series) After inheriting a house in Seattle\, Jax O’Connell is living the life of her dreams as a glass bead maker and jewelry designer. When she gets an offer to display her work during a bead shop’s opening festivities\, it’s an opportunity Jax can’t resist – even though the store’s owner is the surliest person Jax has ever met. The weekend’s events become a tangled mess when a young bead maker is found dead nearby and several oddball bead enthusiasts are suspects. Jax must string together the clues to clear her friend Tessa’s name – and do it before the killer strikes again. \nGenre: Cozy Mystery \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-high-strung-janice-peacock/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Book-Club-Banner-52-e1756695123235.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250901T024308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T024721Z
UID:10000715-1761679800-1761683400@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \n(The first book in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series) Read the award-winning\, critically acclaimed\, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. \n1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China’s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. \nFour decades later\, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang’s investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. \nThis is the Three-Body Problem\, and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists’ deaths\, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years\, and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-the-three-body-problem-cixin-liu/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Book-Club-Banner-50-e1753849480644.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250731T193007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250731T193112Z
UID:10000678-1759260600-1759264200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - Jackdaws - Ken Follett
DESCRIPTION:Jackdaws by Ken Follett is a World War II thriller about a team of female spies on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Led by British agent Flick Clairet\, the group must sabotage a German telephone exchange critical to enemy communications\, just days before D-Day. Blending suspense\, espionage\, and historical detail\, the novel explores courage\, betrayal\, and the high stakes of war. \nJoin our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \n  \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-jackdaws-ken-follett/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Book-Club-Banner-49-e1753849461434.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250731T180532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250731T201403Z
UID:10000620-1756236600-1756240200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - Touchstone - Laurie R. King
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \nTouchstone by Laurie R. King is a historical thriller set in 1926 England. The novel follows FBI agent Harris Stuyvesant as he investigates a series of bombings linked to radical political groups. His search leads him to Bennett Grey\, a man with an extraordinary sensitivity to truth and lies—earning him the nickname “the Touchstone.” As Stuyvesant navigates political intrigue and personal deception\, he must rely on Grey’s unique abilities to uncover a dangerous conspiracy that threatens both Britain and the U.S. The book blends psychological suspense with rich historical detail. \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-touchstone-laurie-r-king/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Book-Club-Banner-48-e1753849429239.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250729T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250729T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250701T194203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250701T194203Z
UID:10000618-1753817400-1753821000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Discussion - The Glass Chateau
DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion\, informal and no pressure! \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-discussion-the-glass-chateau/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Book-Club-Banner-42-e1751398860900.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250501T041829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T041829Z
UID:10000606-1748374200-1748377800@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club - Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
DESCRIPTION:Science Fiction – \nEdwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship\, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest\, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness\, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. \nTwo centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth\, but her home is the second moon colony\, a place of white stone\, spired towers\, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. \nWhen Gaspery-Jacques Roberts\, a detective in the black-skied Night City\, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness\, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness\, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth\, and a childhood friend from the Night City who\, like Gaspery himself\, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. \nA virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful\, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-sea-of-tranquility-emily-st-john-mandel/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Book-Club-Banner-38-e1741310756128.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250201T053618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T054051Z
UID:10000573-1745955000-1745958600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club - Statistically Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Our April book discussion is on “Statistically Speaking” by Debbie Johnson. \nJoin us for a friendly discussion on this book along with some enjoyable fellowship!
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-statistically-speaking/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-03-Book-Club-Banner-Statistically-Speaking.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250201T051959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T051959Z
UID:10000571-1742931000-1742934600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club - The Maid
DESCRIPTION:Our March book discussion is on “The Maid” by Nita Prose. \nJoin us for a friendly discussion on this book along with some enjoyable fellowship!
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-the-maid/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-Book-Club-Banner-The-Maid.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250201T053139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T053139Z
UID:10000572-1740511800-1740515400@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club - The Glassmaker
DESCRIPTION:Our February book discussion is on “The Glassmaker” by Tracy Chevalier. \nJoin us for a friendly discussion on this book along with some enjoyable fellowship!
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-the-glassmaker/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-Book-Club-Banner-The-Glassmaker.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20250102T030222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T030222Z
UID:10000570-1738094400-1738098000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club - A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
DESCRIPTION:Our January book discussion is on “A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons” by Kate Khavari. \nJoin us for a friendly discussion on this book along with some enjoyable fellowship!
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-a-botanists-guide-to-parties-and-poisons/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Book-Club-Banner-34-e1730925886789.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241217T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20241201T062421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241201T062421Z
UID:10000564-1734465600-1734469200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Christmas\, Criminals & Campers – by Tanya Kappes \nJoin us for a casual discussion and fellowship. This should be a light and cozy read suited for this busy time of year..
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Book-Club-Banner-29-e1733034110365.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241126T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20241104T014811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T015028Z
UID:10000557-1732651200-1732654800@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons - by Karin Smirnoff
DESCRIPTION:Lisbeth Salander returns\, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. \nChange is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala\, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager—and she’s being watched. \nMikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue\, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still\, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence\, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope. \nA pulse-pounding thriller\, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal\, old enemies and new friends\, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart. \nGoodreads.com
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-garden-spells-by-sarah-addison-allen-2/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Book-Club-Banner-28-e1725327846652.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240903T013951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T013951Z
UID:10000555-1727208000-1727211600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion - Garden Spells - by Sarah Addison Allen
DESCRIPTION:“In a garden surrounded by a tall fence\, tucked away behind a small\, quiet house in an even smaller town\, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel\, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree\, and the extraordinary people who tend it.… \nThe Waverleys have always been a curious family\, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom\, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation\, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit\, and its edible flowers\, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures. \nA successful caterer\, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants—from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful\, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile\, her elderly cousin\, Evanelle\, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys—except for Claire’s rebellious sister\, Sydney\, who fled Bascom the moment she could\, abandoning Claire\, as their own mother had years before. \nWhen Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own\, Claire’s quiet life is turned upside down—along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in\, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind\, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy—if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom—or with each other. \nEnchanting and heartfelt\, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its own….” \n~ Fantastic Fiction.com \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-garden-spells-by-sarah-addison-allen/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Book-Club-Banner-31-e1720297289354.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240331T235259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240331T235259Z
UID:10000537-1724788800-1724792400@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – The Beekeeper's Apprentice – Laurie R. King
DESCRIPTION:In 1915\, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old\, gawky\, egotistical\, and recently orphaned\, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage\, this very modern\, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator\, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes’s past. Full of brilliant deduction\, disguises\, and danger\, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\, the first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries\, is “remarkably beguiling” (The Boston Globe). \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-beekeepers-apprentice-laurie-r-king/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/082724BeeKeepersApprentice.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240324T215300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T215300Z
UID:10000534-1722369600-1722373200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia\, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition\, inescapable family bonds\, and forbidden love. \nCompellingly written\, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny\, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin\, guilt\, and redemption. \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-fall-on-your-knees-ann-marie-macdonald/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/073024FallOnYourKnees.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240324T214440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T214440Z
UID:10000532-1719345600-1719349200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
DESCRIPTION:The Thursday Murder Club is a jaunty and light-hearted cozy mystery focused on four friends living in a retirement village called Coopers Chase who enjoy getting together on Thursdays to investigate and solve cold cases — the Thursday Murder Club. \nOne day\, just before a large new development is soon to break ground in Coopers Chase\, the main builder is murdered\, with the killer leaving a photograph let next to the body. The Thursday Murder Club immediately gets on the case\, but when another body is found\, the plot thickens and the group knows they need to find the killer before it’s too late! \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-thursday-murder-club-richard-osman/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/062524TheThursdayMurderClub.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240330T012910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240330T012910Z
UID:10000535-1716926400-1716930000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
DESCRIPTION:The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books\, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project\, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian\, Cussy Mary Carter. \nCussy’s not only a book woman\, however\, she’s also the last of her kind\, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project\, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks\, she’s going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. \nInspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s\, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage\, fierce strength\, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-book-woman-of-troublesome-creek-kim-michele-richardson/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/052824BookWomanOfTroublesomeCreek.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240324T213725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T213725Z
UID:10000531-1714507200-1714510800@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – Jennifer Government – Max Barry
DESCRIPTION:Taxation has been abolished\, the government has been privatized\, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It’s a brave new corporate world\, but you don’t want to be caught without a platinum credit card–as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers\, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom\, corporate watchdog\, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she’s allowed to fight crime\, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale–and everything must go. \n 
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-jennifer-government-max-barry/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/043024JenniferGovernment.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240111T221308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T221308Z
UID:10000514-1711483200-1711486800@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
DESCRIPTION:From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees\, a brilliant novel that enthralls\, compels\, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity \nSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia\, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer\, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair\, a caustic wit\, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice\, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care\, child labor\, derelict schools\, athletic success\, addiction\, disastrous loves\, and crushing losses. Through all of it\, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. \nMany generations ago\, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for listeners of this novel\, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South\, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion\, and above all\, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys\, and all those born into beautiful\, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind. \nmbitious\, and invigorating story about family\, friendship\, hope\, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-demon-copperhead-barbara-kingsolver/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Book-Club-Banner-25-e1704244039816.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20240111T220559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T220559Z
UID:10000513-1709064000-1709067600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – The Measure – Nikki Erlick
DESCRIPTION:A luminous\, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life? \nEight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. \nIt seems like any other day. You wake up\, pour a cup of coffee\, and head out. \nBut today\, when you open your front door\, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. \nFrom suburban doorsteps to desert tents\, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant\, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? \nAs society comes together and pulls apart\, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And\, if so\, what will they do with that knowledge? \nThe Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined\, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown\, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush\, a doctor who cannot save himself\, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything. \nEnchanting and deeply uplifting\, The Measure is a sweeping\, ambitious\, and invigorating story about family\, friendship\, hope\, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-measure-nikki-erlick/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Book-Club-Banner-23-e1701485600295.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20231202T182304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T182304Z
UID:10000512-1706644800-1706648400@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – West with the Night – Beryl Markham
DESCRIPTION:Markham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight\, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing\, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York\, and no woman had made the westward flight solo\, though several had died trying. Markham hoped to claim both records. On September 4\, 1936\, she took off from Abingdon\, England. After a 20-hour flight she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island\, Nova Scotia. In spite of falling short of her goal\, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo\, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. Markham chronicled her many adventures in her memoir\, West with the Night\, published in 1942. Despite strong reviews in the press\, the book sold modestly\, and then quickly went out of print. After living for many years in the United States\, Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952\, becoming for a time the most successful horse trainer in the country.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-west-with-the-night-beryl-markham/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Book-Club-Banner-Jan24.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20231013T215932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T215932Z
UID:10000506-1703016000-1703019600@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – The Tiffany Girls - Shelley Noble
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the real-life “Tiffany Girls\,” a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s most legendary glassworks. \nIt’s 1899\, and Manhattan is abuzz. Louis Comfort Tiffany\, famous for his stained-glass windows\, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair\, the largest in history. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue\, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass. Known as the “Tiffany Girls\,” these women are responsible for much of the design and construction of Tiffany’s extraordinary glassworks\, but none receive credit. \nEmilie Pascal\, daughter of an art forger\, has been shunned in Paris art circles after the unmasking of her abusive father. Wanting nothing more than a chance to start a new life\, she forges a letter of recommendation in hopes of fulfilling her destiny as an artist in the one place where she will finally be free to live her own life. \nGrace Griffith is the best copyist in the studio\, spending her days cutting glass into floral borders for Tiffany’s religious stained-glass windows. But none of her coworkers know her secret: she is living a double life as a political cartoonist under the pseudonym of G.L. Griffith—hiding her identity as a woman. \nAs manager of the women’s division\, Clara Driscoll is responsible for keeping everything on schedule and within budget. But in the lead-up to the most important exhibition of her career\, not only are her girls becoming increasingly difficult to wrangle\, she finds herself obsessed with a new design: a dragonfly lamp that she has no idea will one day become Tiffany’s signature piece. \nBrought together by chance\, driven by their desire to be artists in one of the only ways acceptable for women in their time\, these “Tiffany Girls” will break the glass ceiling of their era and for working women to come.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-tiffany-girls-shelley-noble/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Book-Club-Banner-21-e1693531268242.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20231013T214237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T215201Z
UID:10000505-1701201600-1701205200@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion – City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong
DESCRIPTION:City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel (Casey Duncan Novels)\nCasey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college\, she killed a man. She was never caught\, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey’s best friend\, Diana\, is on the run from a violent\, abusive ex-husband. When Diana’s husband finds her\, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after\, Casey knows it’s time for the two of them to disappear again. \nDiana has heard of a town made for people like her\, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you’re accepted\, it means walking away entirely from your old life\, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones\, no Internet\, no mail\, no computers\, very little electricity\, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. As a murderer\, Casey isn’t a good candidate\, but she has something they want: She’s a homicide detective\, and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However\, soon after arriving\, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn’t the only secret Rockton is hiding―in fact\, she starts to wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old lives. \nAn edgy\, gripping crime novel from bestselling urban fantasy writer Kelley Armstrong\, City of the Lost boldly announces a major new player in the crime fiction world.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-city-of-the-lost-kelley-armstrong/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Book-Club-Banner-20-e1693530918400.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20231013T213441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T215436Z
UID:10000504-1698782400-1698786000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion - The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
DESCRIPTION:The Cuckoo’s Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel\, 1)\nThe Cuckoo’s Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling\, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. \nA brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan\, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client\, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. \nThen John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister\, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry\, known to her friends as the Cuckoo\, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide\, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties\, rock-star boyfriends\, and desperate designers\, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure\, enticement\, seduction\, and delusion known to man. \nYou may think you know detectives\, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous\, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-the-cuckoos-calling-robert-galbraith/
LOCATION:Dragons Bookclub Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Book-Club-Banner-12-e1690859257974.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T141550
CREATED:20230912T011649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T011649Z
UID:10000495-1695758400-1695762000@theglassdragons.com
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion - Lessons in Chemistry
DESCRIPTION:Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus \nChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact\, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely\, brilliant\, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. \nBut like science\, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother\, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows\, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out\, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, shrewdly observant\, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters\, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. \ngoodreads
URL:https://theglassdragons.com/event/book-club-discussion-lessons-in-chemistry/
CATEGORIES:Dragons Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theglassdragons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Book-Club-Banner-18-e1687925067445.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR