Everyone is welcome! Books to be read are chosen by the group members.

Books chosen are slightly older popular titles so that we can order multiple copies from the MORE system and no book purchase is necessary to participate. For more info: Rebecca 684-3813.

AFTERNOON GROUP:     Thurs., May 16^th, 1:00^pm

The Swiss Courier   by Tricia Goyer

It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich.  When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland.

Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany.  When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands.  If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities.  But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way?

This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns during a fascinating--and deadly--time in history. Goyer has won the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Book of the Year Award in the past.

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Evening Group:    Tuesday, May 28, 7:00 pm
Promise Not To Tell, by Jennifer McMahon

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered--a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del--shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"--was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways.