November - Janice - The Lost Girls of Devon by Barbara O'Neal

Thursday - ZOOM December 3rd at 11:30 a.m.

THE LOST GIRLS OF DEVON by Barbara O'Neal

It’s been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother’s caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help.

Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened. And to complicate matters further, Zoe must also confront the ex-boyfriend she betrayed many years before.

Anxieties spike when tragedy befalls another woman in the village. As the mystery turns more sinister, new grief melds with old betrayal. Now the four Fairchild women will be tested in ways they couldn’t imagine as they contend with dangers within and without, desperate to heal themselves and their relationships with each other.

October - Linda - The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton

As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing...

ZOOM meeting date:   Thursday, October 29th at 11 A.M.

Everyone but Jan (massage) attended today's zoom meeting.   Those that read the book were surprised how much they enjoyed it and Janice even referred it to a few people.   

September - Frances - The Last of the Moon Girls

The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davi

Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave.

Lizzy wants nothing more than to sell the farm and return to her life in New York, until she discovers a journal Althea left for her—a Book of Remembrances meant to help Lizzy embrace her own special gifts. When she reconnects with Andrew Greyson, one of the few in town who believed in Althea’s innocence, she resolves to clear her grandmother’s name.

But to do so, she’ll have to decide if she can accept her legacy and whether to follow in the footsteps of all the Moon women who came before her.

ZOOM meeting on September 24th...all by Rachelle and Erin attended.

AUGUST - Jan - What She Forgot by Cole Baxter

The accident took two lives. But it also took Hannah’s memory…
Waking in the hospital with zero memories after a car accident that killed her mysterious passenger and the other driver, Hannah finds herself suddenly thrust into a life she doesn’t recognize.

Doting husband. Two beautiful daughters. PTA meetings…it all feels foreign, and while her husband and doctors assure her she’s recovering well and the memories will return, she's not so sure.

As she struggles to search for herself, she discovers strange inconsistencies—things that make her question everything she’s been told.

When her memories finally return, will Hannah’s past spell disaster for her future? 

June - Rachelle THE BROKEN ONES by Sarah A. Denzil

Someone was in her house. Someone who knows her.

“You will know me.” The hoarse whisper comes from a room in the house during the dead of the night. A stranger's voice recorded by equipment Sophie set up, because Sophie is paranoid that someone is out to get her.   With few people in her life, Sophie spends all of her time either teaching at a primary school or caring for her ailing mother. Suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease, Sophie's mother is a difficult patient, leaving her little time to herself.  But on the day Sophie finally decides to put herself first and go on a first date, strange things begin to happen. She finds a discarded button in the garden. A hand print on the outside of the window. Her confused mother blames new bruises on a 'shadow'. Who is following her and why?

And then the voice...

After years of emotional abuse, Sophie begins to wonder if her cruel mother is faking her illness and playing tricks on her.   But what kind of mother would do that to her daughter? And what about the man she met online?

ZOOM book club date:  THURSDAY, June 25th at 11:30 a.m.

JULY - Nancy....The Key by Kathryn Hughes

1956 It's Ellen Crosby's first day at work as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' available for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever...

2006
Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum and whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase in an attic belonging to a female patient who was admitted to the asylum fifty years earlier. The shocking contents of the suitcase lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy, lost love and an old wrong that only Sarah may have the power to put right.

May - Erin - The Waratahn Inn by Lilly Mirren

Three sisters are called to come to the Inn where their grandparents finished raising them after their parents died. None of them had been back very often, after pursuing their jobs; but all were determined to go back, when they heard their grandmother (Nan), died. Kate was head chef and beginning a change of menu, which she was excited about. Then she was called to the phone, and heard the news. Dropping everything, she turned things over to the sous chef and let the owner know she was going to leave, and wasn’t sure how soon she could return. She was the first of the girls to arrive. There is so much they learn, as Kate finds Nan’s journals, then begins to share what she read. After Reeda and Bindi arrive, they are all reeling with the information, and the waiting. Soon, each realizes they haven’t kept in touch with each other, never-the-less their Nan. They begin to make up for that, during the wait.   ZOOM book club...all 7 attended and most read the book ;-)

March and April book club

March:  Linda - The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams   Four women with different backgrounds meet in a small oceanside town, all with different backgrounds and stories.  They create a group to solve mysteries which help with Nora's bookstore and another's scones to help and heal.

April:  Janice - Finding Home by Jackie Weger  Phoebe brings her brother and sister to find a new home for them and her parents and sister to join them.   She meets up with junk yard owner Jake hoping to not only move her and her sibs in, but room for her parents and sister eventually too.  Some sexy scenes will check a box on year end ballot LOL.   They end up together with her parents and sibs in a mobile home on same property. 

Due to the pandemic, our club had a zoom meeting coordinated by Ms. Colby.   Thanks Nancy!   Fun seeing everyone and calorie free compared to lunches, but look forward to seeing ya'll this summer hopefully.  Nor sure why, but I didn't update blog this year before now.....my bad.   I summarized March and April's books above.  

January:  Jan - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale, originally published in 1985, is a dystopian novel written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It is set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state, known as Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government.  The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which these women resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.

February:  Frances - Tahoe Deep by Todd Borg - Besides the intrigue of the story, there is a lot of research that Todd Borg does such as tension pneumothorax in death; a mite found in fiber when a door was kicked in; the lemon mites in lemon groves with Casey Street’s help. The amazement of the blind man’s analysis of a person’s gait for identification. He also adds humor with Spot’s size.His research on tattoo artists is remarkable.
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