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• NSWC BOOK CLUB: THE ARTIST OF BLACKBERRY GRANGE by

  • When
    9 Sep 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Teresa's Italian Eatery Private Room 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA 01949
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  **Attendees should read the entire book and come prepared to discuss.  If you are unable to finish the book but would like to attend the discussion, you can do that as well.**
  

  Join us for Book Club!                 September 9, 2025

  Teresa's Restaurant 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA

  Susan Gannon, NSWC member and board member, will lead the discussions.

  

  THE ARTIST OF BLACKBERRY GRANGE

  by Paulette Kennedy

  For a young caregiver in the Ozarks, an old house holds haunting memories in a ghostly novel about family secrets, sacrifice, and lost loves by the author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport.

  In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced.

  Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff. Though Marguerite is a fading shell of the vibrant woman Sadie remembers, Marguerite is feverishly compelled to paint eerie, hallucinatory portraits of old lovers—some cherished, some regretted, and some beastly. All of them haunting.

  With each passing night, time itself seems to shift with the shadows at Blackberry Grange. As truth and delusion begin to blur, Sadie must uncover the secrets that hold Marguerite captive to her past before reality—and Marguerite’s life—slips away entirely.

  
  

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• What's Next - Discovering Your Next Steps

  • When
    17 Sep 2025
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Magia Restaurant, 126 Newbury Street, Danvers, MA 01923

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  WHAT’S NEXT? Discovering Your Next Steps

  Life moves quickly, and it’s easy to stay busy without checking in on where you’re headed. This interactive workshop offers a chance to  reflect and reconnect with what matters most to you right now. Together, we’ll explore where you are in your life and work—and uncover what’s next, whether that’s a small shift, a new habit, a rekindled interest, or a fresh goal.

  With a mix of guided exercises, personal reflection, and group conversation, you’ll gain valuable insight into what you want more (or less) of, and how to move forward with clarity and intention.

  During the workshop you will:

              *Reflect: What’s working now and what might need attention both personally and professionally

              *Clarify: What are your priorities and values

              *Identify: Where do you want to end up?           

      *Plan: What are the next steps to help you find out ‘what’s next

  About the Speaker

  

  AMY GOOBER

  When I was turning 60, I knew it was time to start a new chapter in my life.

  I realized that as women, we are naturally other-oriented. It’s easy for us to put our time, love and resources into everyone else. I yearned to help other women discover their own worth and focus on themselves and their goals. And I realized, if not now, when?

  My children were grown and I was torn between continuing to be a driving force in their lives and giving them space to figure some things out on their own. Starting a new vocation was my answer. I could still parent, but also create something new for myself that would also help others.

  My purpose, 5 years later, is to bring women together and enhance their lives with trips, in person events and a unique community.

  In the process, I can guide them to focus on themselves and what they want. It’s not enough to set goals, you have to accomplish them too. That’s how you build confidence and joy in your life.

  I’m interested in each woman I meet. I want to learn her story and what she is looking forward to. So many of us forget to really value what we have already done and the skills and traits it took to do it. My goal is for women to feel better about themselves and their lives than they did before we crossed paths.

  Wednesday, September 17, 2025

  5:30pm to 7:30pm

  
  

  Magia Italian Restaurant

  126 Newbury Street

  Danvers, MA 01923

  
  

  Member: $30.00

  Non-Member: $40.00

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• NSWC BOOK CLUB: BAD FRIEND by Tiffany Watts Smith

  • When
    14 Oct 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Teresa's Italian Eatery Private Room 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA 01949
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  **Attendees should read the entire book and come prepared to discuss.  If you are unable to finish the book but would like to attend the discussion, you can do that as well.**
  

  Join us for Book Club!                October 14, 2025

  Teresa's Restaurant 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA

  Susan Gannon, NSWC member and board member, will lead the discussions.

  BAD FRIEND  by Tiffany Watts Smith

  This smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendship is read by the author.

  "Smith's gift for journalistic narrative...will make a lot of listeners hear it in a more personal way"—AudioFile on The Book of Human Emotions

  Our culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power, BFFs, or work wives. Yet cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith has always found her own life much messier. She has had dramatic friend breakups, friendships that felt like too much or not enough, friendships that drifted into silence, and friendships built on convenience rather than a meeting of minds. And there are older cultural scripts to contend with: the competitive rival, the jealous backstabber, the underminer, the fair-weather friend.

  We have all been bad friends. It’s impossible to be a perfect one; as Watt Smith points out, women’s friendships have long been magnified, scrutinized, praised, and admonished, creating a legacy of impossible ideals. In Bad Friend, Watt Smith reflects on her own experience and thoroughly mines the rich cultural history of female friendship to look for a new paradigm that might encompass the struggles along with the joy.

  

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• NSWC BOOK CLUB: THE FROZEN RIVER by Ariel Lowhon

  • When
    11 Nov 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Teresa's Italian Eatery Private Room 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA 01949
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  **Attendees should read the entire book and come prepared to discuss.  If you are unable to finish the book but would like to attend the discussion, you can do that as well.**
  

  Join us for Book Club!                NOVEMBER 11, 2025

  Teresa's Restaurant 149 S. Main St. Middleton MA

  Susan Gannon, NSWC member and board member, will lead the discussions.

  THE FROZEN RIVER  by Ariel Lawhon

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR  

  From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.
  
  "Fans of Outlander’s Claire Fraser will enjoy Lawhon’s Martha, who is brave and outspoken when it comes to protecting the innocent. . . impressive."—The Washington Post
  
  "Once again, Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine." —People Magazine
  
  Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
  
  Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.
  
  Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.
  

  
  

  

  
  

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