May Sarton’s THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD: A NOVEL; a sixty-year-old bookshop owner is threatened for being a lesbian.
Anne Tyler’s A PATCHWORK PLANET; a young man with a criminal past tries to make amends.
Kirk Douglas’s MY STROKE OF LUCK; the actor’s serious 2003 stroke
Robert St. John’s, BEN-GURION: BUILDER OF ISRAEL; a young adult biography about the “Father of Israel”, written by a reporter who traveled to nearly every continent.