2025 BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS & MEETING DATES

January 28 Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen

February 25         The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Christopher Murray 

March 25              Violeta by Isabel Allende 

April 29                  Goodnight Irene by Luis Urrea 

May 27                   Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa 

June 24                  The Women, by Kristen Hannah  

July 29                    Theo of Golden by Allen Levi  

August 26               The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin  

September 30         Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by Kathleen Rooney  

October 28              James  by  Percival Everett 

November 25          All Fours by Miranda July  

December 30          Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy  

January 27, 2026   Eventide by Kent Haruf

April - Goodnight Irene

In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.
           
After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact.
 
Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstance