Our discussion will be on the follow up book to A Pledge of Silence, and is called Along The Broken Bay by Flora J. unanimously decided upon at our last meeting. Book Clubĭecember 8th, Wednesday (PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE) – 7 p.m.,īook Club Meeting hosted by Jody Harris and Carol May. Perhaps we can reschedule it for the spring. Train into Atlantic City for shopping and lunch at the Tanger Outlets has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Attendees are responsible for purchasing their own beverages and snacks. We are looking forward to seeing all of you there. We have 7 people signed up for Lunch and Shopping at Hill Creek Farms. We will be planning another event like this in the future! Hill Creek Farms Please email me at if you would like to join us, or will no longer be able to attend. We are hoping that you will all be able to make this new venue and time. We have been forced to change the plans to the following: Unfortunately, Auburn Winery will NOT be able to accommodate a group that large. We had 24 sign up! We are so excited by the interest.

The book is brutal and chilling at times as the harsh reality of life under Japanese occupation becomes all too clear.IMPORTANT UPDATE! We have had an overwhelming amount of interest for our Winery Date Night on November 6th. The Japanese occupation of Manila (the Philippines) turns her world upside down and she learns to survive on almost nothing. When the book opens she lives a privileged life with cooks, maid and nannies. Gina is a great character and completely changes through the course of the book. This offers a different story about WWII. I don’t often read fiction about WWII so this book was well outside my comfort zone. (Lake Union Publishing, 1 July 2019, ebook, 393 pages, bought from Amazon First Reads) Can Gina keep this delicate operation running long enough to outlast the enemy, or is she on a sure path to defeat that will put her family, her freedom, or even her life at risk? She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. High-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemyīut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. Nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of There, she forges a new identity and opens a Medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground armyĪnd smuggles her back to Manila. Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an AmericanĮxpat living in Manila.

A pledge of silence by flora j solomon