July 2025
TDL Afternoon Book Club, July 16, 2025 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, July 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm
PRIVATE LIFE
by Jane Smiley
Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one Margaret Mayfield. When Margaret marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early at the age of twenty-seven, she narrowly avoides condemning herself to life as an old maid...Margaret stands by Andrew during tragedies both historical and personal, but as World War II approaches and the secrets of her husband's scientific and academic past begin to surface, she is forced to reconsider the ife she had so carefully constructed.
A riveting and nuanced novel of marriage and family, Private Life reveals the mysteries of intimacy and the anonymity that endures even in lives lived side by side.
June 2025
TDL Evening Book Club, June 16, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, June 18, 2025 at 3 pm
THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS
by Lisa Wingate
"The dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students' lives"--Book jacket.
May 2025
TDL Evening Book Club, May 19, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, May 21, 2025 at 3 pm
HONOR
by Thrity Umrigar
Long ago [Indian American journalist Smita] and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own past.
In this tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice, Thrity Umrigar shows us two courageous women trying to navigate how to be true to their homelands and themselves at the same time.
April 2025
TDL Afternoon Book Club, April 16, 2025 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, April 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm
THE BERRY PICKERS
by Amanda Peters
"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret."
March 2025
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 ws 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 of 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 Maine's 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." Grandm 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 Afternoon Book Club, February 19, 2025 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, February 24, 2025 at 6:30 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, 2025 at 3 pm
TDL Evening Book Club, January 27, 2025 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 publsher.