November 2025
TDL Evening Book Club, November 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, November 19, 2025 at 3 pm
WEYWARD
by Emilia Hart
“2019. Kate flees London for Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. But she begins to suspect that a secret lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden since the Witch-hunts of the 17th century.
1619. Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all her power to maintain her freedom.
1942. As World War II rages, Violet longs for her mother, long deceased. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the inital W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.”–Cover.
December 2025
TDL Evening Book Club, December 15, 2025 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, December 17, 2025 at 3 pm
The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
“A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, and 18th century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial” — Provided by the publisher
January 2026
TDL Evening Book Club, January 19, 2026 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, January 21, 2026 at 3 pm
Signal Fires
by Dani Shapiro
“An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny.
Division Street is full of secrets. An impulsive lie begets a secret—one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own.. Spanning fifty kaleidoscopic years, on a street—and in a galaxy—where stars collapse and stories collide, these two families become bound in ways they never could have imagined.”
*NEW* Rough Drafts Book Club @ Tecumseh Tavern
Exploring literature with an emphasis on masculinity, fatherhood, history, and adventure.
First Wednesdays at 7PM, hosted at Tecumseh Tavern
January 7th’s book is: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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