(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Want to start 2025 with a relatable romance novel that you can discuss with book lovers everywhere? The next One Book OCL Online Book Club selection is Robyn Carr's newest, The Friendship Club. The virtual interactions will begin Friday, January 3 and continue through Friday, March 7, 2025.
One Book OCL, in partnership with PBC Guru, is the Ocean County Library’s free virtual reading club for patrons and the community. Club members exchange ideas and network in a private forum. Library membership is not required. Cardholders can borrow or download discussion books for free in print, audiobook and eBook formats through the OCL Catalog, Libby/Overdrive and hoopla.
The Friendship Club brings together four women at crossroads in their lives. Celebrity TV host Marni McGuire, with two marriages behind her, claims to be fine on her own. So does her co-producer Ellen. Marni’s expectant daughter Bella, a lawyer, travels a rocky relationship road. The show’s young intern Sofia becomes involved with a domineering partner. Soon, all four women find themselves carving paths through the forest of dating, marriage, loneliness and love – individually and collectively.
Robyn Carr’s mixture of tenderness, humor and drama has generated sales of 27 million copies of her novels, with translations into 19 languages in 30 nations. Eleven of them topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2016 the Romance Writers of America awarded Robyn their Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. She has legions of followers on Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok.
Please register at https://www.pbc.guru/OneBookOCL to join the bibliophiles in the One Book OCL Online Book Club. For more information, stop by any of the Library’s 21 branches and reading centers or visit the OCL website.
