Book Club
November 2024
THE LIGHT PIRATE by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Light Pirate is a mesmerizing coming-of-age story about one little girl in a time and place where nature is determined to assert her dominance over man. Hurricane Wanda leaves behind wreckage that goes far beyond structural damage. Wanda grows up in an environment that is both unwelcoming and viscerally comforting.
December 2024
We will meet to share book titles we recommend. No book for December
January 2025
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Rinker Buck
A “blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand ‘flatboat era’ of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier”
February 2025
A BURNING by Megha Majumdar
This is an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe. They seek to rise-to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies.
March 2025
FOX AND I by Catherine Raven
But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Fox and I is a poignant and dramatic tale of friendship, transformation, and coping with inevitable loss—and of how that loss can become meaningful.
April 2025
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop traces the friendship and adventures of Bishop Jean Latour and vicar Father Joseph Vaillant as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of New Mexico.
