Dedicated Readers Society Book Club List

Monday, August 12, 6:00 PM

The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Monday, November 11, 6:00 PM

1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. The best-selling author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers and the spy they must root out after the war is over.

Monday, February 10, 6:00 PM

Tells the story of a pilot who defies the limitations put upon her gender to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific in the golden age of aviation, and the woman who uncovers her buried history 60 years later. In 1987, when Emma inherits a piece of land, she finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle’s journal that tells the story of Livy Jones.

Monday, May 12, 6:00 pm

Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, 200-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England—the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to
symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre.

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.

Monday, September 9, 6:00 PM

Both a complex, spellbinding mystery and a masterful portrait of mid-century American life that is “a novel to cherish” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The River We Remember offers an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home.

Monday, December 9, 6:00 PM

In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans?

Monday, March 10, 6:00 PM

July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

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.