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General membership meetings are scheduled several times a year. Time and date for upcoming meetings will be posted on this website and emailed to all current members. The meetings are open to all members and guests.
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Friends meet at the Magnolia Point Clubhouse in Green Cove Springs on the last Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. The meetings are open to all members and guests. Please present your driver's license at the entrance gate and proceed to the Clubhouse restaurant, located in the basement.
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Book Club Meetings
The Friends of the GCS Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month, at 10:30, in the GCS Senior Center Library.
August 19: Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly.
Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half -sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all.
As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm?
Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.
September 16: Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
Now a major motion picture (The Sheep Detectives with Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Galitzine, and Emma Thompson), this funny and surprising mystery stars a new breed of detectives you’ve got to read to baaaaa-lieve.
Something is not right with George the shepherd. His sheep have gathered around him outside the cozy Irish village of Glennkill to assess the situation. George has cared for the sheep, reading them books every night, and now he lies pinned to the ground with a spade. His flock, far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep, sets out to find George’s killer, led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world).
Her team of investigators includes Othello, who was rescued from the Dublin Zoo; Mopple the Whale, who is always hungry and remembers everything; and Zora, an existential ewe—just to name a few. Together, the sheep discuss the crime late into the night, and their speculations vary wildly. Determined to unravel the mystery, they embark on furtive missions into the village, where they encounter a hoof-full of two-legged suspects. There’s Ham, the terrifying butcher who smells of death; Rebecca, the secretive village newcomer; and Father Will, a sinister priest the sheep call God.
With wit and heart, this clever international bestseller is a mystery to chew on—and savor.
October 21: Alas, Babylon
The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, with an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.
“Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away.
But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness.
November 21: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone brings to life Elizebeth Smith Friedman. A woman who grew up in a small town, the youngest of nine children, with a very unassuming name but rather big dreams. Determined to make something of herself she went to college despite her father telling her not to. After attending two colleges to get her degree in English literature Elizebeth decided she wanted to see if she could make it in the wider world. She tried over and over again to get clerical work or work at a library but was constantly unsuccessful. Just as she was about to give up and move back home she met George Fabyan, an eccentric millionaire that hired her to come and work with Elizabeth Wells Gallup on uncovering the Baconian secrets hidden in Shakespeare's works. Taking a leap of faith she agreed, and so began a journey that would lead to stopping gangsters during prohibition, catching Nazi spies and ultimately helping shape the way codebreakers work today.
December 16: Train Dreams
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West―its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders―this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century―an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones―streaming on Netflix
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