The Soul Searchers Book Club (Age 35+)

Nov 17, 2025 Book __ The Father She Went to Find__ by Carter Wilson
Amazon 4.2; Goodreads 3.7; 448 pages
Claudia will facilitate this session
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Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one mystery Penny's never been able to solve: why did her father leave when she was in a coma at age seven, and where is he now?

On Penny's twenty-first birthday, she receives a card in the mail from him, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday card is different. For the first time ever, there's a return address. And a goodbye.

Penny doesn't know the world beyond her mother's house and the special school she's attended since her unusual abilities revealed themselves, but the mystery of her father's disappearance becomes her new obsession. For the first time ever she decides to leave home, to break free of everything that has kept her safe, and use her gifts to answer the questions that have always eluded her. What Penny doesn't realize is she might not be able to outsmart a world far more complicated and dangerous than she'd ever imagined.
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SOLITO
by Javier Zamora
Amazon 4.6; Goodreads 4.5; 416 pages
Roz will facilitate this session

[THIS BOOK IS A MEMOIR AND REALLY TIMELY]

Javier Zamora's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a "coyote" hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
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Meetup room will open ~7:50pm EST
Please be on time !!!!!!!
Camera must be ON during the meetup !!
PLEASE SIGN UP ONLY IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND
IF YOU SIGN UP AND CAN NOT ATTEND, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR RSVP TO NO AS SOON AS YOU KNOW YOUR PLANS HAVE CHANGED
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Usually we have ~5-6 last minute dropouts, so if the meetup is full, join the waitlist and read the book -- there is a good chance you will get in

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

by Marie Bostwick
Amazon 4.6; Goodreads 4.1; 384 pages
Teresa will facilitate this session

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman's Place--a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn't that feel like enough?
Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia's newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women--Bitsy and Viv--to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine--and that their secret longing for more is something they share. Nicknaming themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan, these four friends have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that helps them hold fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments--and what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.
The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a humorous, thought provoking, and nostalgic romp through one pivotal and tumultuous American year--as well as an ode to self-discovery, persistence, and the power of sisterhood.
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Meetup room will open ~7:50pm EST
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PLEASE SIGN UP ONLY IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND
IF YOU SIGN UP AND CAN NOT ATTEND, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR RSVP TO NO AS SOON AS YOU KNOW YOUR PLANS HAVE CHANGED
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Usually we have ~5-6 last minute dropouts, so if the meetup is full, join the waitlist and read the book -- there is a good chance you will get in