June 2026
TDL Evening Book Club, June 15, 2026 at 6:30 pm
TDL Afternoon Book Club, June 17, 2026 at 3:00 pm
The Wedding People
by Alison Espach
…Phoebe Stone arrives at the Grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event.
Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years – she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.
Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe…
Rough Drafts Book Club
Exploring literature with an emphasis on masculinity, fatherhood, history, and adventure.
First Wednesdays. 7pm discussion at the Library, optional (but encouraged!) 8pm social hour at Tecumseh Tavern.
May 6th’s book is: The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan.
Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father’s business into a highly profitable company. And when something unthinkable happens at a camp get-together with Nelson as Scoutmaster and Jonathan’s teenage grandson and daughter-in-law as campers, the aftermath demonstrates the depths—and the limits—of Nelson’s selflessness and bravery.
The Hearts of Men is a sweeping, panoramic novel about the slippery definitions of good and evil, family and fidelity, the challenges and rewards of lifelong friendships, the bounds of morality—and redemption. (from Goodreads)
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Rough Drafts Book Club
Exploring literature with an emphasis on masculinity, fatherhood, history, and adventure.
First Wednesdays. 7pm discussion at the Library, optional (but encouraged!) 8pm social hour at Tecumseh Tavern.
June 3rd’s book is: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adrift on the mighty Mississippi, young Huck Finn is determined to escape the constraints of “civilized” life. Fleeing an abusive father and a world that never quite made room for him, Huck sets out on a journey that will test everything he thinks he knows.
Along the way, he meets Jim, an enslaved man risking everything for his freedom. As the two travel together on a makeshift raft, they encounter con men, feuding families, and the ever-present dangers of a divided society.
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