Weller Library Library Book Club reads:

The Return

by Nicholas Sparks

Published September 2020

New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a book in the tradition of his best-selling books Dear John and The Lucky One.

The story follows an injured Navy doctor, Trevor, to his family home. He returns to a dilapidated cabin he inherited from his grandfather to regroup from devastating injuries sustained in Afghanistan.

Of course, there is a complicated love interest, Natalie, who keeps him at a distance even though there is a strong attraction between the two. He suspects she is hiding a secret.

A teenage neighbor, Callie, lives in the trailer park next to his inherited cabin. He hopes Callie, who he discovers his grandfather had befriended, can help him understand the older man’s death.

Skipping Christmas

by John Grisham

Published November 2001

A comic novel by John Grisham about a couple, Luther and Nora Krank, who try to escape their annual holiday frenzy by taking a cruise. Eschewing their normal shopping, decorating, and celebrating means they can put their Christmas budget towards a Caribbean trip instead.

The neighborhood is in an all-out campaign to get the Kranks to reconsider as their undecorated house will nix chances to win the best decorated block prize.

There are angry carolers, picketers, and boy scouts that feel abandoned by the couple’s plan to cruise.

Best plans and all, they find their daughter decides to bring home a new fiancé to see how the family does up the holidays. For her they will change course. But is it too late?