January 2026
TDL Evening Book Club, January 12, 2026 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, January 21, 2026 at 3 pm
Signal Fires
by Dani Shapiro
“An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny.
Division Street is full of secrets. An impulsive lie begets a secret—one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own.. Spanning fifty kaleidoscopic years, on a street—and in a galaxy—where stars collapse and stories collide, these two families become bound in ways they never could have imagined.”
*NEW* Rough Drafts Book Club @ Tecumseh Tavern
Exploring literature with an emphasis on masculinity, fatherhood, history, and adventure.
First Wednesdays at 7PM, hosted at Tecumseh Tavern
January 7th’s book is: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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February 2026
TDL Evening Book Club, February 09, 2026 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, February 11, 2026 at 3:00 pm
There There
by Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange’s novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious, unforgettable debut. –Provided by publisher.