Fever by Mary Beth Keane. It's about Mary Mallon, the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” an Irish immigrant and the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid fever. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine. To be discussed on July 27.

The movie Ryan's Daughter will be presented. The film is a 1970 British epic romantic drama directed by David Lean starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles. The film, set in August 1917 - January 1918, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during WWI despite moral and political opposition from her nationalist neighbors. Viewing is on the evening of August 24.