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This month's selection is the blockbuster best-selller The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.  From Novelist:

"Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as as their respecitve beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways."

New faces and new voices are always welcome.

This month the group discusses the award-winning Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.  From Novelist:

June's book is C. W. Gortner's The Last Queen--a fictional portrait of Juana Castile, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel and sister of Catherine of Aragon.  It is packed with royal intrigue and court manipulations.

New faces and new voices are always welcome.

The group discusses Graham Greene's  classic The Power and the Glory.  In 1930s Mexico, the government is attempting to supress Catholicism.  Specifically, the state of Tabasco is forcing priests to renounce their faith and marry or else be shot.  However, one last priest refuses and turns fugitive.

New faces and voices are always welcome.  

The group discusses The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns.  Inspired by true events, the novel tells the intertwined stories of a young woman from 1950s Japan who must choose between her heart and home and a journalist in modern America who discovers her father's long-bured secrets.  

New faces and voices are always welcome.

This month's pick is historical novel The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin.  Set in pre-World War I Hollywood, it re-imagines the complex friendship between silent film legend Mary Pickford and screenwriter Frances Marion.

New faces and new voices are always welcome.

This month the group discusses Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece Frankenstein.

This month's title is historical novel In Alexa's Shoes by Rochelle Alexandra.  From Amazon:

"In the autumn of 1940, thirteen-year-old Alexa's happy is life is ripped from her as she, her mother, and many of the locals are rounded up by the Nazis in Poland.  Loaded onto cattle trucks, they are transported to an unknown destination. . . Life is a continuous nightmare as she is selected by an SS officer's wife, destined to become little more than their slave."

New faces and voices are always welcome.

This month's pick is Kristin Harmel's The Winemaker's Wife--a multigenerational story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France.  It begins during the dark days of World War II and stretches to 2019.

New faces and new voices are always welcome.

Curl up with a good book on Monday morning.  Sign up is required.  This month's mystery is Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary.  Amy Lillard is also the author of the Mayhem & Magnolia series and multiple Amish series.