March 225
TDL Evening Book Club, March 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, March 19, 2025 at 3 pm
GRANDMA GATEWOOD'S WALK
by Ben Montgomery
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maines' Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said, I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person - man or woman - to walk it twice and three times.
February 2025
TDL Evening Book Club, February 24, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, February 19, 2025 at 3 pm
THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO
by Donna Freitas
"Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. ... Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? ...She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage. ...What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new?"--Provided by publisher
January 2025
TDL Afternoon Book Club, January 15, 2024 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, January 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm
AMAZING GRACE ADAMS
by Fran Littlewood
"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible every-woman pushed to the brink- who finally pushes back....Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she'll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing....But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them... and, most important, remind herself."-- Provided by publisher.