https://www.mcmurrayartleague.com/CAFEs McMurray Art League upcoming events McMurray Art League Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:42:26 GMT Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:42:26 GMT Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT <p style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 16px;">Please join Marlene Boas and Jan Pini for the next meeting of the MAL Art and Artists Book Club! <font><strong style="color: rgb(255, 84, 93);">Come even if you haven't read the book!</strong>&nbsp;</font></font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Verdana"><font><font><font color="#1D2228">We will meet to discuss</font> <strong><font color="#FF0000">"</font></strong></font></font><font><font color="#FF0000"><strong>The World of Curiosities"</strong></font></font></font><span>&nbsp;by Louise Penny.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Verdana"><font><font color="#0F1111" style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40);"><font face="Verdana">Feel free to read the book and add to the discussion. And bring friends and snacks! A voluntary donation of $5 is requested.</font><br></font></font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><font style="font-size: 16px;"><font color="#1D2228" face="Verdana"><font style="background-color: inherit;"><font color="#333333"><strong>Here's Amazon's synopsis:</strong></font></font></font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">But something has.</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">But to what end?</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.</font></span><br> <br> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#0F1111">In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.</font></span><br></font></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><br></p> https://www.mcmurrayartleague.com/event-6870149 https://www.mcmurrayartleague.com/event-6870149