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SUMMARY:This Book Club is Gay - Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we kickoff 2025 with a new book club! This Book Club 
 is Gay features books centered around LGBTQIA  characters and 
 stories!\n\nThis month we'll read Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma 
 R. Alban: \n\nIt’s 1857\, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season 
 to snag a wealthy husband\, or she and her mother will be out on the 
 street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and 
 she’d rather be anywhere but here.\n\nGwen\, on the other hand\, is on 
 her fourth season and counting\, with absolutely no intention of finding a 
 husband\, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only 
 daughter of a rakish earl\, from whom she’s gotten all her flair\, fun\, 
 and less-than-proper party games.\n\n“Let’s get them together\,” she 
 says.\n\nIt doesn’t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather 
 than surrender Beth to courtship\, they should set up Gwen’s father and 
 Beth’s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead.\n\n“It’ll 
 be easy” she says.\n\nThere’s just…one\, teeny\, tiny problem. Their 
 parents kind of seem to hate each other.\n\nBut no worries. Beth and Gwen 
 are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. 
 How hard can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be?\n\nOf course\, just as 
 their plan begins to unfold\, a handsome\, wealthy viscount starts calling 
 on Beth\, offering up the perfect\, secure marriage.\n\nBeth’s not mature 
 enough for this…\n\nNow Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with 
 someone else\, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she’s 
 caught feelings\, hard\, and they’re definitely not for her potential 
 fiancé.\n\nThat’s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you 
 accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.\n\nAdult 
 book clubs are open to ages 18 . Meetings: The last Thursday of every other 
 month\n\nRegistration is OPTIONAL\, but ENCOURAGED if you would like to be 
 added to the email list to receive meeting reminders and other updates!
LOCATION:Parma - Meeting Room\, Parma Public Library
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