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Join us for a fun-filled Puzzle Palooza at our San Isidro de Heredia Puzzles Swap Meetup Group event! Bring your gently used puzzles to trade with fellow enthusiasts and discover new challenges to take home. Whether you're a novice puzzler or a seasoned pro, this is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and expand your puzzle collection. Don't miss out on the chance to exchange, socialize, and maybe even find that missing piece you've been searching for. Let's swap, share, and puzzle together at our upcoming event!

Join us for a fun-filled Puzzle Palooza at our San Isidro de Heredia Puzzles Swap Meetup Group event! Bring your gently used puzzles to trade with fellow enthusiasts and discover new challenges to take home. Whether you're a novice puzzler or a seasoned pro, this is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and expand your puzzle collection. Don't miss out on the chance to exchange, socialize, and maybe even find that missing piece you've been searching for. Let's swap, share, and puzzle together at our upcoming event!

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**Our February novel is: Julia by Sandra Newman** **This month is a classic, dystopian, fiction, literary fiction, women’s fiction, and science fiction novel. The book is 394 pages in print and 14 hours and 20 minutes on audiobook.** **An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.** Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984. All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia. Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell’s now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.

Private Group. Closed to the Public Knowing ourselves and understanding our abilities is the first step toward wielding our gifts with control and accuracy. In subsequent classes we will verify and hone our talents with activities and discussion. These are hands-on workshops and participation is expected. The goal of our series will be to develop expertise in areas of particular interest such as mediumship, channeling, divination, healing and, etc.. Our ultimate directions will be determined by class members as we evolve. I look forward to sharing and discovering with you. - Cynthia

This month we’ll be reading Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBA

This meeting will be an open discussion about the book "an Immense World" by Ed Yong