Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Meet at: Zion Classroom or Whole Latte Love Café (1308 S. Main Street, North Canton)
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls
2024
September 6 – (Whole Lotta Love Café)
Genesis Trilogy, Book 3: Sold into Egypt, Joseph’s Journey into Human Being by Madeleine L’Engle
“…Jacob’s favored younger son, Joseph – a journey on many levels: the abduction from Canaan country to pagan Egypt…poverty to riches...insignificance to power…from parochial narrowness to the authentic humanness which comes with hard lessons….” L’Engle joins Joseph…as she herself moves through grief…
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris (Zion Classroom)
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls (Whole Lotta Love Café)
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius (Whole Lotta Love Café)
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
