The Gilded Lily Literary Society is to promote the love of reading, good food and friendship. Our next selection will be Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts.

There is no membership fee, we just ask that you RSVP by sending an email to Gilded Lily at mygildedlily@hotmail.com or sending a text message to Debbie at 816-510-2182.

Drinks and appetizers will be provided. Meetings are held at the store unless otherwise noted. Previous GLLS selections shown in the image slideshow below.

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2026 Dates & Titles

July 14 - Founding Mothers

August 11 - To be selected

September 8 - To be selected

October 13 - To be selected

November 10 - To be selected

December 8 - To be selected

Book cover of 'The Trumpet of the Swan' by E. B. White, illustrated by Edward Frascino, featuring a boy sitting by a pond with a swan and ducks.
Book cover for 'The Eighty-Dollar Champion' by Elizabeth Letts, featuring a white horse with a rider against a green background and blue sky.
Book cover of 'The Women' by Kristin Hannah. The background features a red and gold desert scene with silhouettes of palm trees and a helicopter.
Book cover for Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express' showing three men in an arched hallway with dim lighting
Cover of the book "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, featuring an illustration of a girl and a figure, possibly a dancer, holding hands.
Book cover for 'The Shadow Land' by Elizabeth Kostova, featuring an ornate wrought iron gate in front of a landscape seen through a stone archway, with a deep blue background and decorative borders.
Book cover of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey featuring a portrait of a woman with dark hair in a White dress sitting against a background of red and green floral pattern.
Book cover for 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' by Garth Stein, featuring a dog's face at the bottom and the title text above against a blue background.
Book cover art for John Steinbeck's 'East of Eden,' featuring a large tree branch at the top, a green tree with grazing horse in the background, and a small holly illustration at the bottom.
Book cover of 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John Irving, featuring a detailed illustration of an armadillo against a green background.
Book cover titled 'The River of Doubt' by Candice Millard. It features a black and white photo of Theodore Roosevelt's face and a landscape scene with a river and trees. The cover includes a quote from the New York Times and states it is a national b
Illustration of a white swan with a crown around its neck, floating on water with a cloudy sky in the background, inspired by 'The Trumpet of the Swan' by E.B. White, illustrated by Fred Marcellino.
Book cover for 'Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage' by Kendall Taylor, featuring a black and white photo of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, with the subtitle 'Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom'.
Illustration of Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion discussing with the Scarecrow and Tin Man from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in the forest, with a small dog in the foreground.
Book cover of 'Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter' showing a black and white photo of Karen Carpenter in a denim jacket with Iistener text.
Book cover for 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway with a blue ocean background.
A woman and a young girl hugging inside a room with a window and a table with a wrapped gift on it.
Book cover titled 'The Secret Garden' with a girl in a yellow coat and hat standing in a garden, surrounded by bare trees and a stone step.
Book cover titled "Deaths on Pleasant Street" by Giles Fowler, featuring a sepia-toned illustration of a Victorian mansion, with a gold emblem indicating it was the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award winner.
Book cover titled "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden, featuring an image of a Geisha in traditional attire.
A portrait of a young woman with dark curly hair, wearing a white dress with puffed sleeves, sitting outdoors with greenery in the background. There is an oval text box at the bottom with the words "Emma" and "Jane Austen".
Book cover for "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles. Shows a man in a suit and hat standing on a balcony, looking out over a city, with the title and author's name.
Book cover of 'The Monuments Men' by Robert M. Edsel, featuring black and white images of soldiers holding paintings and art pieces.
Book cover titled 'Silent Night' with a black-and-white photo of soldiers walking in snow, a Christmas tree in the background, and barbed wire in the foreground.
Book cover of 'The Boys in the Boat' by Daniel James Brown, featuring a rowing team on a calm lake with a sunset sky.
Book cover of 'The Cider House Rules' by John Irving, featuring an apple with a branch and leaves against a blue background.
Book cover of 'American Princess' by Stephanie Marie Thornton, featuring a light blue background with author's name at bottom, and a stylized blue ribbon or fabric flowing above a black car. Text includes a quote at the top and details about the book
Book cover of 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' by Gail Honeyman, featuring an illustrated woman wearing an orange top and brown skirt, with a Reese's Book Club sticker in the top right corner.
Book cover of 'The Alice Network' by Kate Quinn, featuring a woman with a hat and bags standing in front of a vintage car and Big Ben, with a plane flying above.
Image of a book titled 'The Map Thief' by Michael Blanding, featuring a cutout on the inside cover revealing a vintage map. The top of the page has a subtitle about a rare-map dealer who stole millions of maps. The caption at the bottom quotes the Bo
Book cover titled 'Killers of the Flower Moon' with a sunset background and a silhouette of an oil derrick.
Cover of the book titled 'The Feather Thief' by Kirk Wallace Johnson, with a background of colorful feathers and a label reading 'Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century'.
Cover of a book titled 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak, featuring a hand pushing dominoes on a table, with a dark background and a subtitle 'The Extraordinary International Bestseller'.
Cover of the book titled "The Personal Librarian" featuring a woman in a red dress standing in a grand library with ornate architecture and bookshelves.
Book cover of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving, featuring a rustic red pickup truck in front of a weathered barn, with a light blue sky in the background, and a sticker for the PBS program "The Great American Read" at the bottom.
Cover of The Chronicles of Narnia book titled "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis, featuring an illustration of a lion playing with two girls in a garden setting.
Book cover of 'Becoming Mrs. Lewis' by Patti Callahan, featuring a woman in a vintage dress and hat standing at an open gate, looking out towards a countryside landscape with a church tower and houses.
Book cover titled "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen with a green background and decorative floral design.
Back view of a woman in a brown dress with a white collar standing outdoors on a grassy landscape with a hill and cloudy sky in the background, promoting the novel 'I am Mrs. Jesse James' by Pat Wahler.
Vintage book cover titled 'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton, featuring an illustration of a woman with curly hair in a pink dress holding a shawl.
Book cover of 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, with stylized images of a donkey and a pig at the top, and the title in large pink and blue letters.
Book cover of 'The Cider House Rules' by John Irving, featuring a red apple on a branch with green leaves on a yellow background.
Book cover of 'The Language of Food' by Dan Jurafsky, featuring the title with letters made of crackers and a subtitle 'A Linguist Reads the Menu'.
Photo of a vintage book titled "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke. The cover features an illustration of three men dressed in robes, standing outdoors near a rocky landscape.
Book cover titled 'East of Eden' by Steinbeck, with a landscape watercolor illustration at the bottom showing hills, trees, and fields.
Book cover of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus" with a distressed portrait of a woman with scars, hand on face, appearing contemplative or distressed.
Cover of a book titled "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, with a red background and gold lettering.
Book cover for "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill, featuring a cloudy sky background and dark silhouette of structures.
Book cover titled "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. The background is light green, with the title in large black and red letters. There is a small vintage photograph of a young woman in the bottom right corner.
Book cover of 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury, featuring an illustration of a man in a suit holding a flaming torch.
Book cover of 'The Trumpet of the Swan' by E.B. White, illustrated by Edward Frascino, featuring a boy sitting by a pond with a swan and ducks.
Book cover for 'The Trumpet of the Swan' by E.B. White, illustrated by Fred Marcellino, featuring a white swan playing a trumpet on a pond with a cloudy sky background.
Book cover of Charlotte Brontë's novel 'Jane Eyre' from Penguin Classics featuring a portrait of a young woman with dark hair, wearing a lace collar and a blue and patterned dress, against a dark background.
Red hardcover book titled "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean with a gold flame icon on the cover.
Book cover of William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' with a line drawing of a jungle scene.
Cover of a book titled "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery, featuring an illustration of a woman with red hair in profile.
Book cover with the title 'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf. The illustration features a stylized cake with five dark circles on top, decorative yellow accents, and a bunch of grapes at the bottom.
Book cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, featuring a woman in Edwardian attire sitting outdoors, reading a book, with a background of trees.
Book cover of 'The Pearl' by John Steinbeck, showing a man in a small boat on the water with a woman, with a sky background.
A vintage book cover titled "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" showing Alice, a girl with long blonde hair in a red dress, standing next to the White Rabbit dressed in a waistcoat and holding a pocket watch.
The cover of a book titled 'I Married Adventure' by Osa Johnson, featuring a zebra stripe pattern.
Book cover titled "The Secret Life of Sunflowers" by Marta Molnar, featuring a torn design revealing a painted sunflower on the left and a woman with dark hair and a black top on the right.
Book cover for 'The Phantom of Fifth Avenue' by Meryl Gordon. Features a profile of a woman with vintage hairstyle and pearls, with a blue background.
Book cover for 'The Witches: Salem, 1692' by Stacy Schiff, featuring women dressed as Salem witches with white bonnets.
A word cloud featuring the quote "The Count of Monte Cristo" with prominent yellow text. The cloud includes a quote from Alexandre Dumas and mentions of themes like justice, world trials, and the soul.
Yellow book cover titled 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The cover features a stylized black silhouette of a man in a suit sitting and holding a champagne glass.
Book cover titled 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier, featuring a scenic landscape with a castle in the distance, large green leaves and purple flowers framing the scene.
Book cover titled "Wallis in Love" by Andrew Morton. Features a black and white photo of Wallis Simpson, former Duchess of Windsor, with text describing her true passion and love story.
Book cover of 'Washington: A Life' by Ron Chernow, featuring a portrait of George Washington on a rearing horse in military uniform, with a background of trees and sky, and a red banner at the top indicating it is a New York Times bestseller.
Cover of a book titled 'The Feather Thief' with colorful feathers in the background.