BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20250717T180000Z DTEND:20250717T190000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, July 17th at 1 PM for the Cover-to-Cover Book Club! The book for July is Unbroken: A World War II Airman's Story of Survival\, Resilience\, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. On a May afternoon in 1943\, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared\, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil\, gasoline\, and blood. Then\, on the ocean surface\, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant\, the plane's bombardier\, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood\, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent\, breaking into houses\, brawling\, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager\, he had channeled his defiance into running\, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come\, the athlete had become an airman\, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight\, a tiny raft\, and a drift into the unknown. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean\, leaping sharks\, a foundering raft\, thirst and starvation\, enemy aircraft\, and\, beyond\, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance\, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity\; suffering with hope\, resolve\, and humor\; brutality with rebellion. His fate\, whether triumph or tragedy\, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. - Goodreads. All are welcome! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us on Thursday\, July 17th at 1 PM for the Cover-to-Cover Book Club! The book for July is Unbroken: A World War II Airman'\;s Story of Survival\, Resilience\, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. On a May afternoon in 1943\, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared\, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil\, gasoline\, and blood. Then\, on the ocean surface\, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant\, the plane'\;s bombardier\, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant&rsquo\;s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood\, he'\;d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent\, breaking into houses\, brawling\, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager\, he had channeled his defiance into running\, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come\, the athlete had become an airman\, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight\, a tiny raft\, and a drift into the unknown. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean\, leaping sharks\, a foundering raft\, thirst and starvation\, enemy aircraft\, and\, beyond\, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance\, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity\; suffering with hope\, resolve\, and humor\; brutality with rebellion. His fate\, whether triumph or tragedy\, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. - Goodreads. All are welcome! LOCATION:TB Scott Free Library 16 W 1st Street UID:e.2717.13035 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260430T010558Z URL:https://business.merrillchamber.org/events/details/cover-to-cover-book-club-07-17-2025-13035 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR