The Book Club meets on the first Monday of each month at 9:30 am. Whenever possible the book group has these books available in the library; look for the books with a yellow dot on the spine. To check out a book, put your name on the card in the back of the book and place it in the box on the shelf. Return the book when you are finished so that others may read it before the next meeting.
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Meeting ID: 853 58221885 | Password: 662888
TLC Book Group Schedule for 2020-2021
April 2021: Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Non-fiction (history, sociology). Wilkerson's thesis is that the United States has a caste system in which people's place in society is determined permanently on the basis of skin color or ancestry. She compares the caste system in the United States with that in India and in Nazi Germany. 388 pages.
May 20021: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. Historical fiction. Set in Dorset, England on the Jurassic coast, the author weaves historical figures and actual events into an engaging account of real-life nineteenth century amateur scientists and fossil hunters, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot. These headstrong women changed the conventions of the time. 299 pages
June 2021: I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott. Historical novel. Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a respected general when she meets Alexander Hamilton, a charismatic, ambitious aide to George Washington. They marry, and Eliza is tested by public scandal, betrayal, personal heartbreak, and tragedy, but she remains Hamilton’s ally in life and his advocate after his death. 439 pages
July 2021: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Memoir. The author, a leading voice on racial justice, writes an eye-opening memoir of growing up as a black, female Christian that describes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals. 192 pages.
August 2021: Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach. Biography. It is about a young woman working in a predominantly male staffed steel factory. She is also dealing with bipolar condition which is in the background of the setting, but not the dominant theme. 310 pages
September 2021: Because we will have six weeks between meetings, we have chosen two books, both of which deal with Nazi Germany. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter is a novel based on a true story about a Jewish family (parents, three brothers and two sisters) who survived the holocaust in Poland. 403 pages.
The second book is Voices in The Night: The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Editor & Translator Edwin Robertson. In the face of the horrors of the Nazi regime, the spirit of Dietrich Bonhoeffer burned its brightest. From his cell in Flossenburg Prison, here are the reflections of one of Christianity's most influential and convicting modern writers. 123 pages
To join click HERE!
Meeting ID: 853 58221885 | Password: 662888
TLC Book Group Schedule for 2020-2021
April 2021: Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Non-fiction (history, sociology). Wilkerson's thesis is that the United States has a caste system in which people's place in society is determined permanently on the basis of skin color or ancestry. She compares the caste system in the United States with that in India and in Nazi Germany. 388 pages.
May 20021: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. Historical fiction. Set in Dorset, England on the Jurassic coast, the author weaves historical figures and actual events into an engaging account of real-life nineteenth century amateur scientists and fossil hunters, Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot. These headstrong women changed the conventions of the time. 299 pages
June 2021: I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott. Historical novel. Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a respected general when she meets Alexander Hamilton, a charismatic, ambitious aide to George Washington. They marry, and Eliza is tested by public scandal, betrayal, personal heartbreak, and tragedy, but she remains Hamilton’s ally in life and his advocate after his death. 439 pages
July 2021: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Memoir. The author, a leading voice on racial justice, writes an eye-opening memoir of growing up as a black, female Christian that describes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals. 192 pages.
August 2021: Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach. Biography. It is about a young woman working in a predominantly male staffed steel factory. She is also dealing with bipolar condition which is in the background of the setting, but not the dominant theme. 310 pages
September 2021: Because we will have six weeks between meetings, we have chosen two books, both of which deal with Nazi Germany. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter is a novel based on a true story about a Jewish family (parents, three brothers and two sisters) who survived the holocaust in Poland. 403 pages.
The second book is Voices in The Night: The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Editor & Translator Edwin Robertson. In the face of the horrors of the Nazi regime, the spirit of Dietrich Bonhoeffer burned its brightest. From his cell in Flossenburg Prison, here are the reflections of one of Christianity's most influential and convicting modern writers. 123 pages