Dorset Library Book Clubs
The Dorset Library offers two options for book clubs. One, called the Book Club, will focus on fiction with an occasional non-fiction selection. It meets on the fourth Thursday of every month at 5pm. The second, called the Non-Fiction Book Club will focus on modern history and other nonfiction books chosen by participants. It meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 5pm.You will find good conversation and refreshments at each meeting! We will add the list of upcoming books soon so you can get a head start! Call or email the Library to reserve any of the upcoming books.
The current non-fiction book is The First Wave by Alex Kershaw.
The current fiction book is Still Life by Sarah Winman. (this meeting is May 9 since our March date was pushed into April)
The upcoming books fiction for May, June and July:
May- Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shabaka – Linda H
June – The Secret Life of Sunflowers -by Marta Molnar – Cathie G
July – Olive Kitteridgeby Elizabeth Strout – Roger G
May 9 @ 5pm
Still Life by Sarah Winman
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian intent on salvaging paintings from the ruins. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and paint a course of events that will shape Ulysses’s life for the next four decades.
Returning home to London, Ulysses reimmerses himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—all the while carrying with him his Italian evocations. So, when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate: he must return to the Tuscan hills.
With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.
May 14 @ 5pm
The First Wave by Alex Kershaw
Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The first to fight when the stakes were highest and the odds longest, these men would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler’s fortress Europe—and the very history of the twentieth century.
The result is an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw’s remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on World War II’s longest day.