Book Club
2022- 2023 Books
Thursday September 22 — The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede NonFiction 261 pages
38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport on September 11, 2001. After four days, the passengers developed friendships with the townspeople. Made into a Broadway musical Come from Away.
Thursday October 27 — The Once and Future Witches
by Alix Harrow Historical Fiction 513 pages
In 1893 the Eastwood sisters join the Suffragette movement of New Salem. There’s no such thing as witches — but could the women’s movement turn into the witches’ movement?
Thursday November 17 — The Little Paris Bookshop
by Nina George Fiction 390 pages
From his floating bookstore barge on the Seine, Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own?
Thursday, January 26 — The Island
by Victoria Hislop Fiction 473 pages
Alexis Fielding traces her heritage to the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga — Greece’s leper colony.
Thursday February 23 — The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid Fiction 385 pages
Aging Hollywood actress Evelyn Hugo chooses magazine reporter Monique Grant to write about her life — revealing that their two lives intersect in improbable ways.
Thursday March 23 — The Unexpected Spy
by Tracy Walder Memoir 245 pages
A Delta Gamma at the University of Southern California — Tracy interviewed with a CIA recruiter, became an agent, assumed an alias identity, and served in the Middle East. (Google the Spring 2020 issue of Anchora).
Thursday April 20 — The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn Historical Fiction 624 pages
It’s 1940 and three women answer the call to the country estate Bletchley Park where the best minds in Britain are training to break German military codes.
Thursday May 18 — A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
by Melissa Fleming Non Fiction 276 pages
Doaa and her family leave Syria for Egypt then Europe. But crossing the Mediterranean brings hardship.
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