{"id":4723,"date":"2025-07-17T17:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/?post_type=mec-events&p=4723"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:48:55","slug":"not-your-mothers-book-club-reads-roxy","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/events\/not-your-mothers-book-club-reads-roxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Mother\u2019s Book Club reads \u201cRoxy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you like edgy stories and a variety of genres, check out our Not Your Mother’s Book Club!\u00a0 Copies of our September selection, Roxy by Jarrod and Neal Shusterman, will be available for checkout in mid-August.<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 11th<\/sup> @ 6:30 pm
\nThe Depot<\/p>\n

\u201cThe freeway is coming. It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life.<\/p>\n

Ramey, I . The victim of the bet between two manufactured the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), who is at the top of her game, and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall), who is tired of being the helpful one, and longs for a more dangerous, less wholesome image. The wager\u2014a contest to see who can bring their mark to \u201cthe Party\u201d first\u2014is a race to the bottom of a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. And you are only human, dazzled by the lights and music. Drawn by what the drugs offer\u2014tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful\u2026and the troubled places that lie beyond.<\/p>\n

But there are two I. Rameys\u2014Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy\u2019s orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor and Ivy, his older sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy. Which one are you?\u201d -Goodreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you like edgy stories and a variety of genres, check out our Not Your Mother’s Book Club!\u00a0 Copies of our September selection, Roxy by Jarrod and Neal Shusterman, will be available for checkout in mid-August. Thursday, September 11th @ 6:30 pm The Depot \u201cThe freeway is coming. It will cut the neighborhood in two. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[178],"mec_category":[6],"class_list":["post-4723","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-not-your-mothers-book-club","mec_category-adult-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}