The Christmas Train by David Baldacci Tuesday December 18, 2012 Special Christmas Meeting at Bella’s Italian Grille 1081 West Bank Road (Dutch Treat for dinner) 6:30 pm In a departure from his usual thrillers, bestselling author David Baldacci brings us this sweet holiday tale full of humor, romance, mystery, and…
Category: Good Reads
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Tuesday November 20, 2012 7:00 pm An old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers. Beginning in the Italian Alps, the story travels by various routes to New York’s Little Italy, a Hoboken factory, backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota’s Iron Range and the trenches of France. Trigiani is a master…
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Tuesday October 16, 2012 7:00 pm Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 non-fiction book presented in the style of a novel. Set in Chicago circa 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World’s Fair, and Dr. H.…
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Tuesday September 18, 2012 7:00pm For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled…
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Tuesday August 21, 2012 7:00pm Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight year old who has all but given up on love and happiness- until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become…
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Tuesday July 17, 2012 7:00 Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson might be returning to her rural North Carolina home to escape her failed marriage, but what awaits her is anything but a smooth, quiet healing period. Instead, Willa tosses herself into a 75-year-old murder mystery and a developing relationship with a local…
The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond
Tuesday June 19, 2012 7:00 pm The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, A Love Story Popular blogger and cookbook author, Ree Drummond, shares the story of her courtship and marriage to her husband, whom she refers to as “Marlboro Man”. Though Drummond grew up in Oklahoma, she never…
NIGHT ROAD by Kristin Hannah
Tuesday, May 15 7:00 Jude Farraday has always put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach—are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child, quickly becomes…
TURN OF MIND by ALICE LAPLANTE
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:00 pm The bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeion suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. LaPlante’s debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be…
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
Tuesday March 20, 2012 7:00 pm Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same in the same hospital, take turns narrating the struggles…