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Book of the Week: THE CHESHIRE CHEESE CAT by Carmen Agra Deedy, Randall...
In a 19th century London inn, frequented by Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, a cat and a mouse become friends.
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Book of the Week: FOLLOW MY LEADER by James B. Garfield
After a boy is blinded in an accident, he gets a guide dog.
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March 2020 Book Recommendations
Thomas Mallon’s FINALE: A NOVEL OF THE REAGAN YEARS; petty politics, big headed egos, and the ramp up to the failed summit with Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. Louis Auchincloss’s DIARY OF A...
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Book of the Week: FINALE: A NOVEL OF THE REAGAN YEARS by Thomas Mallon
Petty politics, big headed egos, and the ramp up to the failed summit with Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Book of the Week: DIARY OF A YUPPIE by Louis Auchincloss
A young lawyer tramples the people he loves –and hates– to satiate his ambition.
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Book of the Week: DAMAGE by Josephine Hart
A British Member of Parliament has an affair with his son’s fiancée.
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Book of the Week: MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert
Bored in her marriage, a woman has an extramarital affair.
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Book of the Week: THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES by Shirley Jackson
Tales of horror and hell, that generated hate mail from the public, and other exaggerated responses.
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April 2020 Book Recommendations
Ian Fleming’s CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG; the Pott family discovers their car is magical. A tale by the creator of James Bond. Jean Harris’s MARKING TIME: LETTERS FROM JEAN HARRIS TO SHANA ALEXANDER;...
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Book of the Week: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG by Ian Fleming
The Pott family discovers their car is magical; a tale by the creator of “James Bond”.
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Book of the Week: MARKING TIME: LETTERS FROM JEAN HARRIS TO SHANA ALEXANDER...
Convicted for the murder of her lover, an imprisoned, former headmistress, befriends a well-known journalist.
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Book of the Week: THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES by Jean Kerr
Hilarious essays about raising six children in the 1950s, and living with a theatre critic husband.
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Book of the Week: IF LIFE IS A BOWL OF CHERRIES, WHAT AM I DOING IN THE PITS?...
Casual swipes at husbands, marriage, and the drudgery of household chores.
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May 2020 Book Recommendations
Jean Kerr’s MARY, MARY; the author’s long-running Broadway play about a newly-divorced couple, who meets again to avoid a tax audit. Ashley Hope Perez’s OUT OF DARKNESS; rage, revenge, and forbidden...
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Book of the Week: MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr
The author’s long-running Broadway play about a newly-divorced couple, who meets again to avoid a tax audit.
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Book of the Week: OUT OF DARKNESS by Ashley Hope Perez
Rage, revenge, and forbidden love in a 1930s Texas town.
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SUMMER READING LIST 2020
from the Grateful American Foundation SUSPECT RED by L.M. Elliott HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly LIKE A RIVER by Kathy Cannon Wiechman THE DRUM OF DESTINY by Christopher Stevenson THE BELOVED...
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Book of the Week: A BUSS FROM LAFAYETTE by Dorothea Jensen
A fourteen-year-old girl meets the famous general.
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Book of the Week: LOST ON A MOUNTAIN IN MAINE by Donn Fendler and Joseph B. Egan
In 1939 a twelve year old boy gets separated from his boy scout troop, and survives nine harrowing days in the wilderness.
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June 2020 Book Recommendations
Tony Randall’s and Michael Mindlin’s WHICH REMINDS ME; a lifetime of jokes, anecdotes, and show business stories; the late actor’s autobiography. Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer’s MUSICALLY SPEAKING: A LIFE...
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