Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The novel focuses on 29-year-old Eleanor, a social misfit with a traumatic past who becomes enamored of a singer, whom she believes is her destiny. Mary Louise Selzer will lead the discussion.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett This novel about a brother and sister over the course of five decades explores their bond, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. Patricia Sterling will lead the discussion.
At the December 15th Book Club meeting members have the choice of reading aloud a favorite poem, a passage from a longer piece, or sharing a fond holiday memory. We look forward to enjoying this new twist on our holiday-season meeting. The Deercreek Book Club was started in 1996. We welcome new members. To […]
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is a work of fiction first published in January 2020. Lydia, a bookstore owner in Acapulco, saves her 8-year-old son Luca from a massacre that wipes out 16 members of their family at the celebration of her niece’s 15th birthday cookout. The perpetrators are three sicarios, killers for Los Jardineros, […]
New York Times Bestseller and Hello Sunshine Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick At the height of the Cold War, Irina, a young Russian-American secretary, is pulled from the CIA typing pool and given the assignment of a lifetime. Her mission: to help smuggle Doctor Zhivago into the USSR, where it is banned, and enable Boris […]
Will select new books to read from July 2021 to June 2022. Please come with the title and author of one or two books that you would like to recommend, as well as a brief summary and any other information with the potential to generate interest. Fiction, memoir, and non-fiction genres are all welcome. Book […]
In The Splendid and the Vile, best-selling author Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinksmanship but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s country house, Chequers, and his wartime residence, Ditchley, where Churchill and his entourage go when […]
The Island of Sea Women The Island of Sea Women explores the bonds of friendship between women. It is set on the Korean island of Jeju and draws on the centuries-long history of the haenyeo, female divers who are the breadwinners of their families, while their husbands perform domestic duties of cooking meals and raising […]
The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben A boy found living feral in the woods is now an adult recluse residing on the outskirts of town. Despite his enigmatic past, Wilde is known to have unique investigative skills. He is called upon to find a missing teenage girl before her disappearance, and another’s, brings disastrous […]
ABOUT THE LOCATION: Ladies Card Room, Deercreek Country Club DCC is closed on Mondays. Book club members can reach the card room through the fitness center. If you are DCC member: use your DCC key/card to access the fitness center. If you are a club member without a key, please contact Marie Hemmerle, DCC Member […]
