All are welcome to attend the Reading on the Avenue Book Club, which meets in the Community Room of Willow Glen Library. On Wednesday, June 25, we'll be discussing Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, & Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.

In boyhood, Louis Zamperini had been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the 4-minute mile. But when WWII came, the athlete became an airman. On a May afternoon in 1943, his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Zamperini struggled to a life raft and pulled himself aboard, and so began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the war. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion.