Upcoming Books (Discussion of the book takes place on date indicated):

October 14, 2025 Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of 13 beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter, Willa, on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently “off again” with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she’ll have to think carefully where to use them.
From the Beyond, Vivi watches “The Chief” Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi’s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes - with or without a nudge of help from above - while Vivi finally lets them grow without her.
 
November 11, 2025 Leota’s Garden by Francine Rivers
Leota’s garden was once a place of beauty, where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices.
Now a widow, eighty-four-year-old Leota Reinhardt is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless, and she voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend.
Then God brings a wind of change through unlikely means: one, a college student with an agenda all his own who thinks he has all the answers; the other, a granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. But can the devastation wrought by keeping painful family secrets be repaired before she runs out of time?
 
December 9, 2025 The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.
Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job. Thrown rather suddenly into the inner workings of Mr. McCredie’s ancient bookshop on the picturesque streets of historic Edinburgh, Carmen is intrigued despite herself. The store is dusty and disorganized but undeniably charming. Can she breathe some new life into it in time for Christmas shopping? What will happen when a famous and charismatic author takes a sudden interest in the bookshop—and Carmen? And will the Christmas spirit be enough to help heal her fractured family?
 
January 13, 2026 As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters—Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa—a chance at a better life.

But just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Amidst the tragedy and challenges, they learn what they cannot live without—and what they are willing to do about it.
 
February 10, 2026 The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. 







Past Books:
October 2022       "Cold Wind" by C J Box
November 2022      "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel
December 2022    "Jingle All The Way" by Debbie Macomber
January 2023       "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave
February 2023        "The Bootlegger's Wife" by Denise Devine
March 2023          "This Tender Land" by William Kent Krueger
April 2023            "Big Lies in a Small Town" by Diane Chamberlain
May 2023               "What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty
September 2023   "Firefly Lane" by Kristin Hannah
October 2023       "Tending Roses"  by Lisa Wingate
November 2023      "The Hotel Nantucket"  by Elin Hilderbrand
December 2023    "The Santa Suit"  by Mary Kay Andrews
January 2024         "A Fall of Marigolds"  by Susan Meissner   
February 2024      "The Book of Lost Friends"  by Lisa Wingate 
March 2024          "Come Fly the World - The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am" by Julia Cooke
April 2024                "The Irish Boarding House" by Sandy Taylor
May 2024              "The Return" by Nicholas Sparks
September 2024    "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
October 2024           "The River We Remember" by William Kent Krueger
November 2024      "The Women" by Kristin Hannah
December 2024       "The 13th Gift" by Joanne Huist Smith
January 14, 2025     "A Storm of Infinite Beauty"  by Julianne MacLean
February 11, 2025   "The Great Alone" by Kristin Hannah 
March 11, 2025       "Hang the Moon" by Jeanette Walls 
April 8, 2025            "The Rose Code" by Kate Quinn
May 13, 2025           "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik