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Prime Time for Women’s Book Club inspires meaningful connections through reading and discussing books. We believe in the power of our book club to foster positive social connections, enhance the reading experience, and support continuous learning, all key factors for healthy aging.
Become a member and join our book club and build bonds through the love of books. Enjoy lively discussions that often, but not always, lead to intimate conversations with fellow book lovers who often become dear friends! Meet in person as a different member leads the discussion each month…after all, every woman deserves to be seen and heard!
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Book Club Selection for 2025
JANUARY
Twice
by Mitch Albom
Led by Cidalia Brocca
Summary: Twice is a magical realism love story about Alfie Logan, a man gifted with the ability to relive any moment in his life once, but with a crucial catch: if he rewinds a relationship, the person he loves can never love him again
Location: TBD
FEBRUARY
The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
Led by Sharon Hoppes
Summary: The Frozen River is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Martha Ballard, a midwife in 1789 Maine who investigates a murder and scandal, using her diary to uncover the truth and challenge the era’s injustices against women.
Location: TBD
MARCH
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Led by Nancy Hadley
Summary: Kindred follows Dana, a Black woman from 1970s California, who is uncontrollably pulled back in time to an antebellum Maryland plantation to save her white, slave-owning ancestor. There she confronts the brutal realities and psychological trauma of slavery, and where her modern freedoms clash with the violent past.
Location: TBD
APRIL
The Women
by Kristin Hannah
Led by Amy Vennett
Summary: Kristin Hannah’s The Women tells the story of Frances “Frankie” McGrath, a privileged nursing student who enlists as an Army Nurse during the Vietnam War, driven by patriotism and a desire to prove women can be heroes. There is forced to face the brutal realities of combat and a divided America that largely ignores female veterans’ sacrifices.
Location: TBD
MAY
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
Led by Bernadette Wagner
Summary: Less is a witty, poignant novel about Arthur Less, a middle-aged gay novelist who avoids his ex-lover’s wedding by accepting literary invitations worldwide, leading him on a comical, self-reflective journey through France, Germany, India, and Japan. While traveling, Less grapples with love, aging, and the absurdity of his own life before courageously deciding to confront his past.
Location: TBD
JUNE
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Carolyn Fraser
Led by Maggie Terry
Summary: Prairie Fires, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, reveals the complex reality behind the Little House books, showing how Wilder transformed her family’s harsh life of poverty, rootlessness and struggle into uplifting tales of self-reliance. The author explains how Wilder’s idyllic stories contrast with the gritty history of westward expansion, Native American displacement and the Dust Bowl.
Location: TBD
JULY
The Confession
by John Grisham
Led by Jenny Tobery
Summary: The Confession is a legal thriller about an innocent man on death row in Texas, facing imminent execution for a murder he didn’t commit, while the real killer, a dying ex-con, decides to confess to a minister, which triggers a desperate race against time to stop the wrongful execution.
Location: TBD
AUGUST
Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate
Led by Penny Jo Renner
Summary: Shelterwood is a dual-timeline historical fiction novel set in Oklahoma, weaving together the stories of 11-year-old Olive fleeing abuse in 1909 with a group of vulnerable children, and Ranger Valerie Boren Odell investigating a mysterious burial ground in 1990. The two timelines are connected by hidden truths, land exploitation, and the fight for justice, inspired by real-life tragic events involving Indigenous children and land theft.
Location: TBD
SEPTEMBER
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Led by JoAnn Nave
Summary: Demon Copperhead, a modern retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield, follows Damon “Demon” Fields from his impoverished birth in rural Appalachia through a harrowing youth marked by the opioid crisis, neglectful foster care, child labor, and crushing loss. Navigating systemic injustices, Damon clings to his sharp wit and resilience to find hope and a sense of belonging. The novel powerfully exposes the struggles of poverty, addiction, and institutional failure in contemporary America.
Location: TBD
OCTOBER
Humanish
by Justin Gregg
Led by Tisha May
Summary: In Humanish, Justin Gregg looks beyond whether it’s right or wrong to anthropomorphize, focusing instead on what prompts us to see human qualities in the non-human world and how it affects our decision-making.
Location: TBD
NOVEMBER
Women in War
by David Yuzuk
Led by Brenda Finley
Summary: Women in War uncovers over twenty raw, true accounts of the fearless women who fought and served, from ancient battlefields to the jungles of Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Step into their combat boots: nurses dodging gunfire, spies sabotaging enemies, soldiers enduring unimaginable loss.
Location: TBD
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Sample Book Club Meeting...
Prime Time for Women discusses The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson. Discussion led by member Marcia Toder.