First Readers Book Club

June Book Club
Join us on Tuesday, June 11 for a discussion at First Christian Church at 10:00 AM 
This month the featured book is The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman.  
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Everyone is welcome.

          After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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The book club meets each month on the second Tuesday from 10:00 AM – 11:30 in the church library.

Upcoming books 2023-2024

Here is a list of the upcoming books:
Aug. 2023        “The Clockmaker’s Daughter”               Apr. 2024        “Homecoming”
                        by Kate Morton                                                                 by Kate Morton
Sep. 2023         “The Sentence”                                       May 2024        “Hang the Moon”
                        by Louise Erdwich                                                             by Jeanette Walls
Oct. 2023         “The Overnight Guest”                            Jun. 2024        “The Light Between Oceans”
                        by Heather Gudenkauf                                                     by M. L. Stedman
Nov. 2023        “Demon Copperhead”                             Jul. 2024         “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie”
                        by Barbara Kinsolver                                                         by Ayana Mathis
Dec. 2023        “The Light We Carry”                               Aug. 2024        “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
                        by Michelle Obama                                                            by Betty Smith
Jan. 2024         “Miss Etta: A Novel”                                  Sep. 2024         “The Chaperone”
                        by Deanna Lynn Sletten                                                     by Laura Moriarty
Feb.2024         “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” Oct. 2024         “Ordinary Sacred: The Simple
                        by Taylor Jenkins Reid                                                           Beauty of Everyday Life”
                                                                                                                         by Kent Nerburn
Mar. 2024       “50 Words for Rain”                                     Nov. 2024        “A Lantern in Her Hand”
                        by Asha Lemmie                                                                    by Bess Streeter Aldreich