Book of the Week: MUSICALLY SPEAKING: A LIFE THROUGH SONG by Dr. Ruth K....
A memoir about how melody has quieted horrific memories–including surviving the Holocaust.
View ArticleBook of the Week: ABOUT ALICE by Calvin Trillin
Loving stories about the author’s wife who died of cardiac arrest on 9/11.
View ArticleBook of the Week: LOVES MUSIC, LOVES TO DANCE by Mary Higgins Clark
A murderer selects his victims from the women who answer his personal ads.
View ArticleBook of the Week: APPLE OF MY EYE by Helene Hanff
Adventures in New York–mostly on foot, by the author of 84, Charing Cross Road.
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Elliott Roosevelt’s MURDER IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM; while the Executive Mansion is a flutter with preparations for a classified conference to be attended by General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, a...
View ArticleBook of the Week: MURDER IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM by Elliott Roosevelt
While the Executive Mansion is a flutter with preparations for a classified conference to be attended by General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, a body is discovered. Sleuth Eleanor Roosevelt knows...
View ArticleBook of the Week: JACKIE, ETHEL, JOAN by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Three sisters-in-law bound by marriage, politics, friendship, and tragedy.
View ArticleBook of the Week: 1492: A NOVEL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS by Newton Froelich
Maneuvering, machinations, and manipulation in the time of Ferdinand, Isabella, and their Inquisition.
View ArticleBook of the Week: MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
Ishmael the sailor narrates the story of Ahab, the captain of the Pequod, who is obsessed with avenging the mythic whale for destroying his ship, and severing his leg.
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Agatha Christie’s A POCKETFUL OF RYE; the wealthy Rex Fortescue suddenly falls dead at a tea, and Miss Marple investigates. Anonymous’s and Beatrice Sparks’s JAY’S JOURNAL; a popular high school...
View ArticleBook of the Week: A POCKETFUL OF RYE by Agatha Christie
The wealthy Rex Fortescue suddenly falls dead at a tea, and Miss Marple investigates.
View ArticleBook of the Week: JAY’S JOURNAL by Anonymous and Beatrice Sparks
A popular high school student slides into drug abuse and occult worship.
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