Evening Book Club: 2026 Books
Schedule, discussion questions, book lists, author information, reviews, and more.
How to get a copy of one of these books for yourself.
Simply click on a title and you will be taken to the library's online catalog.
There you will be able to choose your format (regular, large print, CD, digital) and place a hold on the item.
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The Lion Women of Tehran
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ISBN: 9781668036587Publication Date: 2024-07-02In 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.
