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SUMMARY:THUMP Downtown Bend Library Book Club 
LOCATION:Downtown Bend Library\n<p><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/HyUbEv
 6PkDRpktWs8">Thump Coffee</a></p>\n<p>25 NW Minnesota Ave\, Bend\, OR 9770
 1</p>\n<p></p>
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 pp.goo.gl/HyUbEv6PkDRpktWs8">Thump Coffee</a></p>\n<p>25 NW Minnesota Ave\
 , Bend\, OR 97701</p>\n<p></p>;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Downtown Bend Lib
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DESCRIPTION:Discuss this year's Novel Idea selection Supersonic by Thomas 
 Kohnstamm..\nhttps://dpl.libnet.info/event/15840601
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Discuss this year's Novel Idea sel
 ection.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>2026 A Novel Idea Book Selection:</strong
 ></p>\n<p>Supersonic&nbsp\;charts the rise of a boomtown city in the Ameri
 can West where ambition outpaces memory. In the present day\, PTA presiden
 t Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth is determined to rename her daughter&rsquo\;s el
 ementary school after her late grandmother&mdash\;a beloved music teacher 
 and Japanese internment survivor. What begins as a symbolic family gesture
  spirals into a kaleidoscopic\, multi-generational story of struggle&mdash
 \;for and against change\, and over who gets to define the future.</p>\n<p
 >Through interwoven lives&mdash\;an opioid-addicted 19th-century conman\, 
 a disgraced Navy seaman building a jet that will fly faster than sound\, a
  stay-at-home dad turned weed entrepreneur\, and a family haunted by the g
 hosts of progress&mdash\;Supersonic&nbsp\;reveals how each era tries to re
 make the same ground beneath its feet. At once intimate and panoramic\, th
 e story channels the restless energy that propels the West.</p>\n<p><stron
 g>About the Author:</strong></p>\n<p>Thomas Kohnstamm was born and raised 
 in Seattle. He still lives in the same house he grew up in&mdash\;now with
  his wife and two children. A freelance writer for over twenty years\, he&
 rsquo\;s been a Spanish &amp\; Portuguese translator\, travel writer\, vid
 eo &amp\; animation producer and has covered subjects ranging from rainfor
 est conservation to quantum computing to backcountry skiing.&nbsp\;Superso
 nic&nbsp\;is his third book.</p>\n<p>Learn more about&nbsp\;<a href="https
 ://www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/novelidea/2026/Default?gad_source=1&a
 mp\;gad_campaignid=23485360064&amp\;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIurTM9pHXkgMVURutBh3l
 YxrDEAAYASAAEgIth_D_BwE">A Novel Idea.</a></p>\n<p>Questions? Contact&nbsp
 \;<span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><span style="color: #0000ff\;
  text-decoration: underline\;">paigeb@deschuteslibrary.org</span></span>\,
 &nbsp\;541-617-7078</p>\nhttps://dpl.libnet.info/event/15840601
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