December 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, December 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, December 18, 2024 at 3 pm
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
by Shelby Van Pelt
"A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium- and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- Provided by publisher.
November 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, November 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, November 20, 2024 at 3 pm
THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE
by James McBride
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the longheld secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. ...When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishement played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustan us"-- Provided by Publsiher,.
October 2024
TDL Afternoon Book Club, October 16, 2024 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, October 21, 2024 at 6:30 pm
GO AS A RIVER
by Shelley Read
"Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach farm in Iola, Colorado. Wison Moon is a young drifter, displaced from his trial land in the Four Corners reagion. When Victoria encounters Wil, their connection ignites as much passion as danger and as man revelations as secrets. Victoria flees into the harsh wilderness of the nearby mountains when tragedy strikes. Living in a small hut, she struggles to survivie, with no clear notion of what her future will be. What happens afterward is her quest to regain all she has lost, even as the Gunnison River rises to submerge her homeland and the only life she has even known." -- Back Cover/
September 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, September 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, September 18, 2024 at 3 pm
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
by John Irving
First publised in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the 21st century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch - saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. (Summary copied from amazon.com)
August 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, August 19, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, August 21, 2024 at 3 pm
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
by Bonnie Garmus
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show...
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist"--Provied by publisher.
July 2024
I'LL NEVER BE FRENCH (NO MATTER WHAT I DO)
by Mark Greenside
Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.
June 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, April 15, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, April 17, 2024 at 3 pm
THE MEASURE
by Nikki Erlick
"It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart,everyone faces the same shocking choice: do they wish to know how long they'll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?"--Publisher's website.
May 2024
TDL Afternoon Book Club, May 15, 2024 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, May 20, 2024 at 6:30 pm
BLACK CAKE
by Charmaine Wilkerson
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past --a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake...
Charmaine Wilkerson's debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names, can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch"--Provided by publisher.
April 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, April 15, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, April 17, 2024 at 3 pm
THE MUSIC SHOP
by Rachel Joyce
"It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new discs are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled. Frank falls for this curious woman who always dresses in green. But Ilse's reasons for visiting the shop are not what they seem.... The Music shop is a story about good, ordinary people who take on forces too big for them. It's about falling in love and how hard it can be. And it's about music - how it can bring us together when we are divided and save us when all seems lost." --Provided by publisher.
March 2024
TDL Evening Book Club, March 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, March 20, 2024 at 3 pm
MAD HONEY
by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
"Olivia MCAfee's life, married to a surgeon and raising their son, Asher, was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in New Hampshire. When Lily Campanello and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. Olivia's and Lily's paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too.Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that he son is innocent. But as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her." --Cover
February 2024
TDL Afternoon Book Club, February 21 2024 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, February 26, 2024 at 6:30 pm
FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS
by Valerie Perrin
"Violette Troussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Seul - a police chief from out of town - who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Jjulien's inexplicable gesture is intertwinded with Violette's own complicated past. " --Cover
January 2024
TDL Afternoon Book Club, January 17, 2024 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, January 22, 2024 at 6:30 pm
FELLOWSHIP POINT
by Alice Elliott Dark
A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast where her novels are set donated to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend.