Women without Kids - NH

Let's have Brunch! Plenty of all day breakfast and lunch options at this place. I stopped in the other day it was quiet they have a good amount of seating and it's full service, individual I talked to said they would spilt the check upon request.

Gourmet Bites Cafe
https://gourmetbitescatering.com/
Breckenridge Plaza - Plenty of Parking!
254 North Broadway, Salem, NH 03079

Reminder this date, Day Light Savings Ends - don't that that throw you off! If the weather is nice, afterwards we can stroll on the rail trail which is across the street.

We will meet as a group at the Derry Public Library. All members are welcome. We will have some snacks and a bit of general social time, with a focused activity hour: to discuss the book, work on a craft (bring your own), assemble a puzzle etc.

The book selected to discuss for this date is What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (published 6/3/25, put in those library holds 😉).

Details on Meeting at the Derry Public Library:
📍Location: 64 E Broadway, Derry, NH 03038
🅿️Parking: Parking is limited so please make used of the "East Broadway" Public Parking Lot, entrance is between the Masonic Temple and CVS on Broadway (1 min walk to the library). We will be in Meeting Room A, which is located on the lower level (off of the Children's Department).

Goodreads Description of What Kind of Paradise
A teenage girl breaks free from her father's world of isolation in this exhilarating novel of family, identity, and the power we have to shape our own destinies—from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear

The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.

Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Thoreau-like utopia.

As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother's San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling Internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.

We will meet as a group at the Derry Public Library. All members are welcome. We will have some snacks and a bit of general social time, with a focused activity hour: to discuss the book, work on a craft (bring your own), assemble a puzzle etc.

The book selected to discuss for this date is The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (published 7/2/24, it's popular though so put in those library holds 😉).

Details on Meeting at the Derry Public Library:
📍Location: 64 E Broadway, Derry, NH 03038
🅿️Parking: Parking is limited so please make used of the "East Broadway" Public Parking Lot, entrance is between the Masonic Temple and CVS on Broadway (1 min walk to the library). We will be in Meeting Room A, which is located on the lower level (off of the Children's Department).

Goodreads Description of The Lion Women of Tehran
An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.

Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”

But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.