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In-person Arts & Culture

Book Clubs of EPL: The Pull of the Stars

Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026
7:00pm to 8:30pm

Edmonton Public Library (Clareview)

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Free

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Organized by: Edmonton Public Library

Jan.
13

Love reading? Love to talk about books you've read? Join our book club for spirited discussions on a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Each month we'll tackle a new title. Whether you loved it, loathed it, or left it unfinished, we want to hear your take. Come share your impressions and connect with fellow readers!

This week we will be reading The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue.

Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways...

Edmonton Public Library (Clareview)

3808 139 Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T5Y 3G4