This Tender Land (2020), William Kent Krueger, paperback 464 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Brenda Edwards Historical Fiction / Four orphan children flee the brutal Lincoln Indian Training School in southern Minnesota and embark upon an epic coming-of-age journey through the Depression-era Midwestern U.S.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Charles Dickens, Penguin Christmas Classics, October 2014, hardcover 144 pp DISCUSSION LEADER: Priscilla Martin Victorian Literature / Elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed by visitations from ghosts of his past.
Someone Else’s Shoes (2023), JoJo Moyes, hardcover 448 pp Discussion Leader: Cary Flynn General Fiction / In a spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances, two women suddenly find themselves invisible — to their spouses, colleagues, the world — and find joy in being “seen” by each other.
The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Barbara Kingsolver Historical Fiction / An evangelical Baptist minister takes his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959, and findshis mission calamitously transformed. Discussion leader Jill Mountan
Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022), Shelby Van Pelt, hardcover 368 pp Discussion Leader: Priscilla Martin General Fiction, Mystery / Through her relationship with a giant Pacific octopus, a lonely widow discovers that sometimes humans don’t always have all the answers.
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The Women of Chateau Lafayette (2021), Stephanie Dray, hardcover 576 pp Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Curtin Historical Fiction / Based on the true story of a castle in France and three women who, although divided by centuries, are united in their determination to make a better life for themselves and others.
The Sweetness of Forgetting (2012), Kristin Harmel, paperback 368 pp Discussion Leader: Jyothi Shroff General Fiction, Historical Fiction / Three generations struggling to survive reach a turning point when Hope McKenna-Smith travels to Paris to uncover a 70-year-old family secret for her dying grandmother.
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (2021), 368 pp Fiction. Set against the 1974 Greek and Turkish conflict on the island nation of Cyprus is the love story of Greek Cypriot Kostas and Turkish Cypriot Defne. The novel chronicles their eventual migration to London and the impact of their past on their daughter […]
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (2023), 448 pp Historical Fiction. A late-18th-century midwife and healer in New England investigates a murder and a rape. Based on the real-life Martha Ballard of Hallowell, Maine who recorded all the births, deaths, and scandals that happened in her frontier town. Discussion Leader: Patricia Sterling The Deercreek Book […]