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!

June 3 at 5:30

Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart.

July 1 at 5:30

Rise To Rebellion by Jeff Shaara

In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command-Fire! as England's peacekeeping mission ignites into the Boston Massacre. The senseless killing of civilians leads to a tumultuous trial in which lawyer John Adams must defend the very enemy who has assaulted and abused the laws he holds sacred. The taut courtroom drama soon broadens into a stunning epic of war as King George III leads a reckless and corrupt government in London toward the escalating abuse of his colonies. Outraged by the increasing loss of their liberties, an extraordinary gathering of Americas most inspiring characters confronts the British presence with the ideals that will change history. John Adams, the idealistic attorney devoted to the law, who rises to greatness by the power of his words . . . Ben Franklin, one of the most celebrated men of his time, the elderly and audacious inventor and philosopher who endures firsthand the hostile prejudice of the British government . . . Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task of crushing a colonial rebellion without starting an all-out war . . . George Washington, the dashing Virginian whose battle experience in the French and Indian War brings him the recognition that elevates him to command of a colonial army . . . and many other immortal names from the Founding Family of the colonial struggle Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, Richard Henry Lee captured as never before in their full flesh-and-blood humanity. Provided by the publisher. 

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 Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
• Chariot On The Mountain by Jack Ford
• Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini 
• 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
• The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Clair Swinarski
• 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
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
• House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
• 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
• Kate & Frida by Kim Fay 
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 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
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berndt
• Miss Cecily's Recipes For Exceptional Ladies by Vicky Zimmerman 
• Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
• Mockingbird Summer by Lynda Rutledge
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert
• Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
• The Only Woman In the Room by Marie Benedict
• The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
• The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Rolling Toward Clear Skies by Catherine Ryan Hyde 
• 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
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 
• The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
• The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams
• The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee Harper
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Truth According To Us by Annie Barrows
• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• Until I Come Back For You by P. A. White
• Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler 
• Wade In The Water by Nyani Nkruman
• A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell