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The Everything Book Club, DAYTIME IN PERSON

"The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean

A live and lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for DAYTIME IN PERSON or on Wednesday, March 16 for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB

If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more. We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues:  Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in person at 1 p.m. (outside in the warmer months, weather permitting). You can switch from one meeting to another or skip a month...you are always welcome as long as we have enough room. Registration is required.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A true chronicle about a man obsessed with preserving an endangered flower.

Determined to clone the rare "ghost orchid," (Polyrrhiza lindenii), a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. A New York Times bestseller. The basis for the feature film "Adaptation,"  starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep.

“The collecting mania that Susan Orlean has so painstakingly described is, like the orchid, a small thing of grandeur, a passion with a pedigree…Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy."--The New York Times

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. Her many books include "The Orchid Thief," "The Library Book," and "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend." 

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