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Book Club: The River by Peter Heller

2025-05-06 18:00:00 2025-05-06 19:30:00 America/Denver Book Club: The River by Peter Heller Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend! Durango Public Library - Room 3

Tuesday, May 06
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-06 18:00:00 2025-05-06 19:30:00 America/Denver Book Club: The River by Peter Heller Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend! Durango Public Library - Room 3

Register at the reference desk, then join us to discuss the book at the library. A free book is available for the first 15 people who register and attend!

Books available six weeks before book club date.

About the book:

"The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence

Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing.

When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey.

When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman?"

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | More Fun Stuff! | Book Talks |

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