Book Club Picks
June 2025
The summer we ran : a novel
by Audrey Ingram

"In the summer of 1996, teenage Tess Murphy's mom gave her two rules to abide by: keep quiet and stay out of trouble...What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high-society Grant Alexander. Over a few wondrous and heat-filled months, Tess and Grant's love blooms so ferociously it feels utterly impossible that anything can keep them apart, until tragedy strikes and the teenagers find themselves pained by betrayal...Now, two decades after their epic teenage romance abruptly ended in heartbreak, Tess and Grant are both running for Governor of Virginia, where secrets from that summer threaten to shatter their families, futures, and the love they once shared"
Go as a river
by Shelley Read

A 1940s teenager running her family's peach farm in Colorado meets a young man with a mysterious past and feels an instant connection but must flee to a small shack in the wilderness after tragedy strikes. 200,000 first printing.
The very long, very strange life of Isaac Dahl : a novel
by Bart Yates

At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life. There are days that begin like any other, only to morph through twists of fate"
Margo's got money troubles : a novel
by Rufi Thorpe

When an affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Margo, the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, finds herself on her own with an infant, and in desperate need of cash, starts an OnlyFans account that turns her into a runaway success, which soon comes with a high price.
Far and away
by Fern Michaels

With her three extraordinary friends by her side, Sophie De Luca is ready to confront a terrible wrong that occurred within her new house decades ago