Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
Zion Church Classroom
September 2026 – May 2027; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2026
September 4 – Ruth Reinoehl: Learning to See by Elsie Hooper
In 1918, Dorothea Lange…a twenty-two-year-old arrives in San Francisco…passion and art, love, family…who risked everything…vivid interior life…sacrifices women make…to illuminate the truth…a gripping account…behind the camera…
October 2 – Linda Gotthardt: Never Ket Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo imagines the lives of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Dramatizes attempts to come to terms with her childhood …the seemingly idyllic …School. Story of love, friendship, memory…fragility of life…
November 6 – Cindy Bagocius: Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
…searching for the best America ever was…small Nebraska town…a railroad depot into a canteen…passing troop trains…home cooked meals, coffee, entertainment…every day…touching love story…a country and its sons…WWII…
December 4-- Jayne Schrader: Theo of Golden by Alan Levy
Theo, an elderly stranger arrives in Southern city of Golden…begins purchasing pencil portraits…gifting…for personal stories in return…secrets are revealed …lives profoundly affected…kindness, connection …transformative power of generosity…
2027
January 8*-- Carol Rossbach: The God of the Woods: A Novel by Liz Moore
August 1975, a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk…Barbara Van Laar…missing…daughter of summer camp owner…region’s employer…older brother vanished years ago…gripping dynasty of secrets…multi-threaded story…
February 5– Laura Thompson: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Sybil has used letters throughout her life…a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer…then, letters from someone in her past…forced to examine a painful period of her life…the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age…a gem…
March 5 – Peggy Ingalls: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Spanning 1900 – 1977…set on India’s Malabar Coast…three generations of a family…a peculiar affliction…12-year old…by boat to her wedding day…future matriarch… medicine…full of joy, hardship and loss…masterful literary novel…
April 2 – Sue Whalen: Dear Judas by James Finke
… love and faith…tested…battles of spiritual warfare…heart stopped beating… salesman…no need for God—a near-death experience …complexities of life…dark forces…married a devout Christian…a nightmare for demons…
May 7 – Shirley Horton: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving
…remember a boy with a wrecked voice…smallest person I knew…summer 1953, two eleven-year-old boys…playing Little League baseball…instrument of my mother’s death…but he is the reason I believe in God…novel…brave piece of work…
*January 8 = Second Friday
