
Shelf-Made: Turning Pages; Building Businesses
Wed, Nov 05
|Birch Tree Books and Plants
This November meeting will take place at Birch Tree Books and Plants with your host, Leah!


Time & Location
Nov 05, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books and Plants, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them all in the tragic accident.
During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie's future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei's odd behavior tugs at Noah's suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident--suspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls…
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