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SDL Book Club 

SDL's book discussion group meets the first Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. 

Share your love of books with others who enjoy reading!

Nina Hill

April 3 at 5:30

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.  When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. 

May 1 at 5:30

The Only Woman In the Room by Marie Benedict

Hedwig Kiesler’s beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated as a woman, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee and her whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. But she kept a secret more shocking than her Jewish heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication...if anyone would listen to her.

Book Club Mar 2024

Until I Come Back For You

June 5 at 5:30

Until I Come Back for You by P. A. White

Trisha is a typical eight-year-old. The youngest of five, she has a pony, a BFF, sticky fingers and a big secret. After homework and chores, she sneaks off to visit a dead body in the woods. Right where she left it. 
Trisha has always challenged authority - lying, snooping, petty theft - but this time she got her sister Katie Catherine in trouble with her when she stole from their creepy neighbor. In an attempt to cover up one crime, they become embroiled in another. After a night of terror, one sister’s sacrifice becomes another sister’s secret. 
Set in 1970s rural Michigan, this unpublished debut novel is based on a true story.

Previous Book Club Discussion Titles

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  • All The Children Are Home by Patry Francis
  • All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • The Art of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein
  • Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys 
  • The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
  • Chariot On The Mountain by Jack Ford
  • The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
  • Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
  • The Doll Maker by Harriet Arnow
  • The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
  • Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
  • Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
  • The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  • Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
  • Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart. Based on true events. Read the series.
  • The Grapes of Wrath by Jon Steinbeck
  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 
  •  Harry's Tree by Jon Cohen
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
  • How The Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
  • The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 
  • Iona Iverson's Rules For Commuting by Clare Pooley 
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 
  • The Monogram Murders: A New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berndt
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  • No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert
  • The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
  • The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
  • The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • Sea Biscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand  Read the book. Watch the DVD.
  • Seven Days Of Us by Francesca Hornak 
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 
  • The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
  • Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams
  • The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
  • A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell