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VILLAGE BOOK CLUB II

Book Nominations for ****-**25

Beth Macy Dopesick

This is a factual book that delves into the “dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America”. It is a riveting read and seems well-researched. At 376 pages, there are several copies at the Aiken library.

Kristin Hannah The Women

This historical fiction story is of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all the women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. This novel underscores deep friendships, bold patriotism, idealism and courage under fire which defines an era.

Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Aging movie star, Evelyn Hugo, decides to dish the dirt on her life of glamour, scandal and an amazing number of husbands. She insists that the magazine send an unknown, low-level reporter to write her story or she won’t let it be written at all. That demand is the first of several twists in the story. Deirdre Mask The Address Book

It reveals what addresses mean in terms of wealth, status and not just a means of where you live. Each chapter is divided into a specific city so you could read only the chapters that might interest you. Ann Patchett Tom Lake

Fiction. A beautiful and moving novel about family, love and growing up. A 316-page meditation on youthful love, married love and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Ken Follett Never

Action spy-novel by master story teller. 800 pages in larger print and paperback. Ken Follett never disappoints.

M. L. Stedman The Light Between Oceans

A WWI veteran who maintains a lighthouse off the shore of Australia with his wife, a woman desperate to have a baby. Her prayers are answered when an infant washes up in a rowboat. The couple makes decisions that will affect the lives of four people. “Intense, brooding, and poignant” in 345 pages. Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence The Elephant Whisperer Non fiction. When Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of ‘rogue’ elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd’s last chance of survival—dangerous and unpredictable, they would be killed if Lawrence wouldn’t take them. Cassie Dandridge Sellectk The Pecan Man

Set in the summer of 1976, it’s a story of how things in the Olde South were rarely clearly black and white, even when the circumstances were all about Black and White. Geraldine Brooks Horse

A true story in 413 pages. A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession and injustice across American history. Geraldine Brooks March

This is the book that won the Pulitzer Prize for Geraldine Brooks. It tells the story of the father of “Little Women” as he fought in the Civil War and left his family in poverty. Dolen Perkins-Valdez Take My Hand

Hard cover, 350 pages. A compassionate novel about a young black nurse’s shocking discovery and quest for justice inn post segregation Alabama. A book that prompts thought and concern. Lara Love Harden The Many Lives of Mama Love A true story recounting Lora Love Harden’s “slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghost writer in this harrowing, hilarious, no-hols- barred memoir”.

Robert Dugoni The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell A case of ocular albinism gave Sam Hill red eyes. He was called ‘devil boy’ by his classmates. Sam is a survivor, supported by loving parents, some compassionate adults, and a few close friends who come into his life when he desperately needs them. Follow Sam into adulthood as he sees the world through those remarkable eyes.

Barbara Davis The Echo of Old Books

Fiction. A story within a story - “unforgettable characters, an old mystery begging to be solved, and a well-researched historical backstory that is both romantic and tragic'. Beautifully written with “dueling timelines and packed with twists and turns”.

J. B. West Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies For 28 years, J. B. West was Chief Usher. He provides an absorbing history of life among the first ladies from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pat Nixon—“A rich account of American history that usually remains behind closed doors”.

Michael C. Grumley The Last Monument

One small handwritten letter, sent from a dark, remote corner of the plant, and lost in the system for sixty years, is about to change the entire human race. 325 pages. Nicola Sanders Don’t Let Her Stay

An “unputdownable” psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist. 288 pages. Marie Benedict The Other Einstein

A look into the life of Einstein’s first wife, who was a brilliant and fascinating woman whose light was lost in her husband’s enormous shadow. 304 pages.

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