The next Book Club will meet in January on Monday, January 6th, at 6:30 pm. We will be discussing "The Storyteller" by Jody Picoult.  This is an extraordinary book that should not be missed. 

Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community.  One day he asks her for a favor and confesses his darkest secret.  What do you do when evil lives next door?  Can someone who committed a truly heinous act ever atone for it with subsequent good behavior?

A well written and thought provoking story.  Hope you can join us.

The next Book Club meeting will be on Monday, November 18 at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall.  For November, we will be reading LOOK AGAIN by Lisa Scottoline. "When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away.  But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops - the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will.  Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful.  But she's a journalist and won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth.  And she can't shake the question:  If Will rightfully belongs to someone else, ....." 

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An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness.

When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald’s across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years

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A novel both heartbreaking and transcendent. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel.

It is the story of a moral dilemma facing a lighthouse keeper and his wife who live on an isolated island in Australia.  Please join us! 

The book we will be discussing is The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wisemand.  This is a deeply moving story of human resilience and enduring love.  The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of  World War II and its aftermath.

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The book we be discussing is I'll Be Back When Summer's in the Meadow, Volume III: A World War II Chronicle, Volumen III by Melanie Ippolito.  In this final volume, Ray & Muriel finally reunite and are married, only to be separated for another 6 months.  In early April of 1946, Muriel makes her way to the States with a contingent of War Brides on the U.S.A.T. Henry Gibbins.

The next Book Club will meet on Monday, February 11th at 7 pm.  We will be discussing the book House Rules by Jody Picoult. This is a story about Jacob Hunt, a teen with Asperger's syndrome. When his hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, Jacob's behaviors look a lot like guilt to the local police. The Hunt family is put into the spotlight and reminded of the intolerance and misunderstanding that threaten somone who is different.  Did this brilliant young man, who cannot read social cues or express himself well to others, commit murder?

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The book we will be discussing is Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. This is a true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses and at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town. Later, as a wife and mother, she runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survives tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit. Please join us!

The book we will be discussing is Paris Wife by Paula McLain.   A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

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The book we will be discussing is I’ll Be Back When Summer’s in the Meadow: A WWII Chronicle Volume II 1944 compiled & edited by Melanie Ippolito. In January of 1944, the United States was preparing for its invasion of France. The author's father, an aviation student in the United States Army Air Corps, was in his final months of training at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her mother, his fiancée, impatiently awaited his return, from her home in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since mid-July of 1943, they had neither seen nor spoken to one another. Their only contact was their written letters and infrequent telegrams. Please join us!