MARTHA MERRELL’S BOOK CLUBS
Martha Merrell’s hosts a variety of book clubs and is pleased to offer the following services free-of-charge to area clubs.
We can:
- Provide a meeting space for clubs
- Provide a selection of books for your club to choose from
- Special order club selections
- Provide a 15% discount on club selections
- Facilitate discussions
- No-charge consulting on new books and current trends
- Share what other clubs are reading
We invite you to stop by our location at 231 West Main Street in the Avalon Square Building.
Discover what we have to offer!
Contact us to set up your club meeting at the store on a regular monthly basis. If you are interested in using our space on a more occasional basis, feel free to schedule a time with us as well. (New surroundings can be just what your book club needs to invigorate itself.) We will gladly accommodate your group’s needs including light refreshments, lunch or dinner.
UPCOMING BOOK CLUBS
Monday Morning Group meets at 10:30 AM
12/2/24 The Women by Kristin Hannah
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets–and becomes one of–the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. War is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
Wednesday Evening Book Group meets at 5:45 PM
12/4/24 a variety of Christmas titles by Mary Kay Andrews
BLUE CHRISTMAS MIDNIGHT CLEAR THE SANTA SUIT
CHRISTMAS BLISS
Avalon Book Group meets at 2 PM
12/2/24 Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.
Monday Afternoon Book Group meets at 2:30
1/13/25 One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
For as long as they have lived on the Wyoming frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. When Ernest Bemis finds his wife Cora in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to Cora’s indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal 1876 winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family–to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There’s Nettie Mae’s son Clyde–no longer a boy, but not yet a man–who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him and Cora’s daughter Beulah who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home. Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. When love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested. Cora and Nettie Mae must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other or risk losing everything they hold dear.
2/25 Horse by Geraldine Brooks
3/25 Table for Two by Amor Towles
4/25 Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
5/25 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
6/25 The Women by Kristin Hannah