Dedicated Readers Society Book Club List
Meets the second Monday of each month at the Chippewa Falls Public Library. For a PDF Book List.
Click on the images below to go to the MORE Catalog to place a hold on the title.
The Woman at the Front by Lecia Cornwall
Monday, June 9, 6:00 pm
A daring young woman risks everything to pursue a career as a doctor on the front lines in France during World War I, and learns the true meaning of hope, love, and resilience in the darkest of times. When Eleanor Atherton graduates from medical school near the top of her class in 1917, she dreams of going overseas to help the wounded, but her ambition is thwarted at every turn.
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
Monday, July 14, 6:00 pm
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada due to the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and
goodwill.
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Monday, August 11, 6:00 pm
Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels. Eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. A new couple moves into the flat below hers in her London apartment, and the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back
memories she would rather forget.