(Doors open and refreshments served at 6:00 pm.)
For ZLAC members only. See details below.
Important: please RSVP here so we can plan food and setup >>
For Members and Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.
Just in time for spooky season, the film adaptation of this romantic thriller will be released October 2, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett.
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Get ready for our annual summertime celebration at ZLAC! For ZLAC members and their guests. ZLAC nonmember rowers invited, too.
For setup purposes, we need an attendee count, so please RSVP here.
A volunteer signup sheet has been circulated. Need the link? Have questions? Contact Julie Kaelberer at jkaelberer@gmail.com.
For Members and Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Author of The Rose Code, Kate Quinn captures the paranoia of the McCarthy Era and evokes the changing roles for women in postwar America in this intimate and thrilling historical mystery. This is a story of female friendships and secrets, set in a women's boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s.
An eclectic group of boardinghouse residents keep themselves to themselves, until a new boarder, Grace, moves in. Grace is a mysterious widow who soon brings the residents together - but their secrets remain. In a country swirling with suspicious and accusation, where women fight for social and financial independence, they must determine who their true enemy really is.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
Crew XIV requests the pleasure of your company on the twelfth of July from 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock for an intimate afternoon of tea and cake, parlour games, and invigorating discussion to celebrate the most revered author, Miss Jane Austen.
Regency or period attire is encouraged but not required.
Young persons who have been presented to the Queen (13+) are welcome to attend, as the event will be alcohol-free.
Please direct inquiries to Mrs. Dianna Woods at diannaewoods@gmail.com.
Open to all ZLAC club members and rowers. Please invite friends and family!
The event includes a trivia competition with prizes, a British costume contest, a dessert auction, and a silent auction. Proceeds will benefit our club.
Trivia teams will include a maximum of six (6) people, who will all be seated at the same table. If you are forming a team ahead of time, please indicate your team members’ names in the form when you click on “Add to Cart.” If you have fewer than six people, we may add people to bring your total to six. If you are not on a team, please indicate that on the form, and we will add you to a team.
Admission includes snacks and one alcoholic beverage. Soft drinks will be provided. Wine and beer available.
Crew XIII is hosting. Questions? Please contact Jane Zwerneman at (619) 840-1216.
This event is now sold out. Thank you for your interest!
This buffet luncheon will be held on the terrace and patio.
Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests, the event includes a fundraiser silent auction.
For Members and Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Author of The Martian, Andy Weir makes science fiction writing not only as technically accurate as possible, but infused with humor and adventure. Non sci-fi readers often report Project Hail Mary as a favorite. It focuses on humor, a suspenseful, fast-paced plot, and a deep, emotional connection between characters, making it more of a character-driver thriller than a hard science-fiction novel.
Fans of sci-fi will surely also enjoy the authentic science, high-stakes interstellar survival, and an endearing, intellectual storyline.
Project Hail Mary won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction, the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, and was a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist. The adapted film, starring Ryan Gosling, will be widely released in the U.S. on March 20, 2026.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
For ZLAC Members
Please join us to welcome, honor, and celebrate our new ZLAC members!
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to membership@zlac.org by April 26.
We’re sorry: This class is now full. If you would like to be notified of a cancellation, please contact eva@himmelberg.com no later than April 8. Thanks!
12 people maximum capacity.
We’ll gather in the ZLAC clubhouse kitchen for a baking class with professional pastry artist (and ZLAC rower) Eva Himmelberg. Light dinner served at 5:00 so you don’t have to bake while hangry!
Class begins as soon as everyone has arrived, STARTING NO LATER THAN 5:30. We plan to have a short break, with the class ending at about 8:00 pm.
Important Details:
We will bake two very traditional sheet cakes called Bienenstich and Cherry Crumble. We will cook vanilla pudding from scratch and use it for the filling of the Bienenstich. We will also use the pudding to create easy and delightful desserts.
If you have a stand and/or hand mixer, please bring it (and let us know beforehand). Same for a digital kitchen scale.
Bring an apron if you like to wear one. Wear a short-sleeved top or one whose sleeves you can roll up.
Bring three containers to take home pieces of two different cakes and one dessert.
Please remove all jewelry on hands and arms (for purposes of hygiene). If you wear nail polish or artificial nails, you will need to wear gloves during the class. Gloves will be provided.
Allergens: We will use hazelnuts, almonds, eggs, butter, cream, milk, and flour.
Please note: Event ticket sales are non-refundable. If you must cancel after purchasing your ticket, you may give or sell it to someone you know. If not, immediately contact Eva at eva@himmelberg.com. These classes are popular, so it’s likely Eva will know of someone who’d like to purchase your ticket.
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known in the neighborhood as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Causeway Housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.
The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local NYPD cops assigned to investigate what happened, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.
As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters — caught in the tumultuous swirl of New York in the late 1960s — overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth finally emerges, McBride shows us that not all secrets can be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in compassion and hope.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
Starts at 12:00 noon.
ZLAC member Jann Allen is hosting a fun afternoon of crafting in the clubhouse!
Bring your project, whether it’s knitting, crochet, embroidery, beading, tatting, sewing — whatever keeps your hands busy! We’ll enjoy each other’s company and expertise. Bring friends!
Light refreshments will be served, or you can bring your own.
Please RSVP at jann@jward.org so we’ll have a headcount for setup purposes.
Starts at 12:00 noon.
For ZLAC members and their guests.
ZLAC member Jann Allen is hosting a fun afternoon of crafting in the Trophy Room!
Bring your project, whether it’s knitting, crochet, embroidery, beading, tatting, sewing — whatever keeps your hands busy! We’ll enjoy each other’s company and expertise. Bring friends!
Light refreshments will be served, or you can bring your own.
Please RSVP at jann@jward.org so we’ll have a headcount for setup purposes.
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, DC, in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.
In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken —physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process.
The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky. How to tell the truth when it's simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn't the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a daughter, a woman, and a physician.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
Starts at 12:00 noon.
For ZLAC members and their guests.
ZLAC member Jann Allen is hosting a fun afternoon of crafting in the Trophy Room!
Bring your project, whether it’s knitting, crochet, embroidery, beading, tatting, sewing — whatever keeps your hands busy! We’ll enjoy each other’s company and expertise. Bring friends!
Light refreshments will be served, or you can bring your own.
Please RSVP at jann@jward.org so we’ll have a headcount for setup purposes.
For all members and their guests. Bring the kids! Prospective members welcome too!
Can you volunteer to bake or make a Holiday Tea dish? Can you help decorate?
If so, please add your name to the Volunteer List. We sent a link to all club members on 11/24.
Lost the link? Please contact Julie Kaelberer at jkaelberer@gmail.com.
SOLD OUT! We’re sorry we couldn’t take more attendees. Hopefully we can schedule another class soon. Send an email to eightoars@zlac.org if you’re interested.
We’ll gather in the ZLAC clubhouse kitchen for a baking class with professional pastry artist (and ZLAC rower) Eva Himmelberg. Refreshments served at 5:30 so you don’t have to bake while hangry!
Class begins as soon as everyone has arrived, STARTING NO LATER THAN 6:00.
All-club potluck party. Reservations are now closed. Thanks to all who plan to attend!
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
We’re sorry, we’ve reached our limit of 24 people for this class. If there’s a lot of interest, we’ll schedule another class later. If you’d like to be on a waitlist for a future class, please fill out this form.
Presented by Bam! Beginners American Mahjong and ZLAC Rowing Club.
Curious about mahjong but don’t want to commit to a series of lessons yet? This one-shot intro to the game is for you! Learn the basics and see what the buzz is all about.
We’ll gather at 1:00 for snacks and mingling. Lesson begins promptly at 1:30, so don’t be late!
This is a Crew XII and Crew XIV fundraiser. The class is limited to 24 people.
(Doors open and refreshments served at 6:00 pm.)
For ZLAC members only. See details below.
We’ll gather at 6:00 pm for socializing. Game begins promptly at 6:30 pm.
If you've never played, we guarantee you'll enjoy this fast-paced dice game. We'll gather in tables of four, play a round, then switch tables and teammates. It's so fun!
We'll provide full game instructions before we start playing.
Refreshments will include heavy hors d'oeuvres, yummy desserts, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
"Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives ... but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, that ending?! I did not see it coming." — Reese Witherspoon
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager — the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise, and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless question, “How do we live on, even after we’re gone?”
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Drinks and snacks will begin at 5:30; painting starts at 6:00.
Admission price includes drinks, snacks, art supplies, and instruction.
In cooperation with San Diego Lifeguarding Association and American Red Cross!
Donors will receive a free one-topping medium pizza from Papa Johns and a Fandango movie ticket by email (movie ticket details here).
Please click here to schedule an appointment, using the code SDLA to find our blood drive.
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing.
When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited.
Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
This buffet luncheon will be held on the terrace and patio.
Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests, the event includes a fundraiser silent auction.
Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)
In the Erg Room, after Saturday practice.
This free session is open to everyone connected with ZLAC. You don’t have to be a rower to attend!
Tim Fitsemons, MS, RDN, CSSD will present. Get your questions answered, and improve your nutrition!
NOTE: This will occur right before the Terrace Luncheon, so please park on the street, leaving the parking lot open for the Luncheon attendees.
We’ll gather on the beach at ZLAC for a yoga class taught by ZLAC member Carra Johnson. A happy hour will follow, with light refreshments provided. Everyone should bring a towel to practice on.
This fundraiser is organized by Crew XV. Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests. Bring friends, family members, and fellow rowers!
Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)
For Members and Their Guests
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.
Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, A Thousand Mornings explores the mysteries of our daily experience.
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
