HG Readers Book Group

Come meet other Healing Garden clients and enjoy bonding over a great book.  This group will meet one Friday a month IN PERSON at The Healing Garden.  Open to clients, caregivers and bereaved members.  Free program with optional donation. 

Please remember to register each month so we know if we have enough participants to meet.  

January Book – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.  When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.  As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?

February Book – The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

This novel explores the life of Sylvia Beach who opened the famous bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in Paris during the 1920s. Beach became essential in publishing James Joyce’s controversial work, Ulysses. The story blends friendship, ambition, and love against the backdrop of a thriving literary community.

March Book – The Great Divide by Christina Henriquez

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. The story is told through alternating perspectives, offering a rich tapestry of experiences from locals and outsiders alike. The novel explores themes of ambition, resilience, cultural clashes, and the human cost of monumental progress, all set against the backdrop of one of the most significant engineering feats in history.