History Nerds Social - Book Club-ish, SLC

Meet new friends that have an interest in history or a newfound desire to learn.

Everyone is welcome! Please attend even if you did not read the monthly book and would just like to listen to other readers insights and add to the discussion.

Or if you simply need an afternoon out to engage in meaningful conversations with a diverse group of new and old friends, this is the place! Plus delicious pastries to top it off.

3rd book- Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Meet new friends that have an interest in history or a newfound desire to learn.

Everyone is welcome! Please attend even if you did not read the monthly book and would just like to listen to other readers insights and add to the discussion.

Or if you simply need an afternoon out to engage in meaningful conversations with a diverse group of new and old friends, this is the place! Plus delicious pastries to top it off.

4th book- All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War―a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations.

Drawing from this war, Nguyen offers a lesson for all wars by calling on us to recognize not only our shared humanity but our ever-present inhumanity. This is the only path to reconciliation with our foes, and with ourselves. Without reconciliation, war’s truth will be impossible to remember, and war’s trauma impossible to forget.

Meet new friends that have an interest in history or a newfound desire to learn.

Everyone is welcome! Please attend even if you did not read the monthly book and would just like to listen to other readers insights and add to the discussion.

Or if you simply need an afternoon out to engage in meaningful conversations with a diverse group of new and old friends, this is the place! Plus delicious pastries to top it off.

5th book- Ultimately, many of the refugees settled in Britain; some worked as domestic servants, others qualified as doctors, wrote books, taught in schools, laboured in factories and on ships. The youngsters went to school. We might not necessarily think of black immigrants when we consider the population of Victorian Britain. But this is a shameful oversight. Their presence was important and their stories, recorded here, are both fascinating and powerful.

Meet new friends that have an interest in history or a newfound desire to learn.

Everyone is welcome! Please attend even if you did not read the monthly book and would just like to listen to other readers insights and add to the discussion.

Or if you simply need an afternoon out to engage in meaningful conversations with a diverse group of new and old friends, this is the place! Plus delicious pastries to top it off.

6th book- A True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau under General Patton.

A son recounts his father's journey as an American Gl in World War II, from training to the horrors of Dachau, in a powerful and intimate memoir.