Book Club 2023-24
Our book club meets at 6:30pm on the last Wednesday of every month with exception of December. We have copies of the book club selection on hand during the month, so you do not have to pre-order.
Please note that the order of this selection may vary depending on the availability of chosen books.
You Found me! Letter: A.
Early morning riser
Heiny, Katherine, author.
2021
Jane easily falls in love with Duncan: he's charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere - at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While she may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she didn't have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, still has Duncan mow her lawn. And his coworker Jimmy comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Jane wonders how the relationship is supposed to work with all these people in it. But any notion Jane has of love and marriage changes with one tragic accident. Now her life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and she knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But is it possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of her eyes?
Fifty words for rain : a novel
Lemmie, Asha, author
2021
Eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her nor fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. When a fleeting moment of chance crosses her path, Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it - a battle that just might cost her everything.
How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel
Jones, Cherie, 1974-, author
2021
"In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront "paradise" In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men, driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed, who attempt a crime that may cost them their freedom--and their lives. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives across race and class in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction."-- Provided by publisher.
In five years : a novel
Serle, Rebecca, author
2020
After nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, it's the same night - December 15 - but 2025, five years in the future. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.
Looking for Jane
Marshall, Heather (Heather J.), author
2022
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, her research takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network. 1971: Dr. Evelyn Taylor joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. Twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she locates Jane and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network's ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.
The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel
Zevin, Gabrielle, author
2020
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
We were never here : a novel
Bartz, Andrea, author
2021
Emily is having the time of her life - she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Kristen says a cute backpacker she brought back to the room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Back home, Emily struggles to bury her trauma, diving head-first into a new relationship and throwing herself into work. But when Kristen shows up for a surprise visit, Emily is forced to to confront their violent past.
A woman is no man
Rum, Etaf, author
2019
Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture. It's a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world, and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.