{"id":48492,"date":"2026-02-20T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=48492"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:28:36","slug":"between-the-lines-book-discussion-isola-by-allegra-goodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=48492","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines Book Discussion: Isola by Allegra Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-4-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48493 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/isola.jpg\" alt=\"Isola by Allegra Goodman book cover.\" width=\"292\" height=\"450\" \/>Monday, May 11 at 7 PM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Isola by Allegra Goodman<\/h4>\n<h4><em>Historical Fiction<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian\u2014an enigmatic and volatile man\u2014spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardian\u2019s servant and the two develop an intense attraction. But when their relationship is discovered, they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope for rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Once a child of privilege who dressed in gowns and laced pearls in her hair, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. As the weather turns, blanketing the island in ice, she discovers a faith she\u2019d never before needed.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-4-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register for Between the Lines Book Discussion: Isola by Allegra Goodman.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 11 at 7 PM Isola by Allegra Goodman Historical Fiction Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian\u2014an enigmatic and volatile man\u2014spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[524,813],"tags":[932],"class_list":["post-48492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-events","category-book-clubs","tag-between-the-lines"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-11 20:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48495,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48492\/revisions\/48495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}