TDL Book Clubs April 2022
Evening Book Club: Monday, 18 April 2022, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. *NEW*
Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS by Bridgett Davis
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Bridgett M. Davis' mother. ... She ran her numbers business for 34 years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal.
TDL Book Clubs March 2022
Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Evening Book Club: Monday, 21 March 2022, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Book club will meet at Salsaria's Restaurant
THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY by Mary Doria Russell
"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it is unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries that barey put food on the table and clothes on their backs.... When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. On her fierce quest for justice,Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet."--Book jacket
TDL Book Clubs February 2022
Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Evening Book Club: Monday, 28 February 2022, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. *NEW*
IN AN INSTANT by Suzanne Redfearn
"Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between two worlds, she watches, helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive. Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle to relcaim their shattered lives. ..."--Book jacket
TDL Book Clubs January 2022
Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Evening Book Club: Monday, 24 January 2022, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. *NEW*
CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff
"Stumped by a magazine assignment to write about his own uneventful life, a man visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. ..."--Book jacket