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Book of the Week: THE PRINCESS DIARIST by Carrie Fisher

The actress’s life in London, before and after Harrison Ford and Star Wars.

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April 2017 Book Recommendations

Sloan Wilson’s, THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT; the martini-soaked Tom Rath is a disappointed corporate striver until he finds gratitude. Judy Blume’s, IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT; a succession of three...

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Book of the Week: THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT by Sloan Wilson

The martini-soaked Tom Rath is a disappointed corporate striver until he finds gratitude.

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Book of the Week: IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT by Judy Blume

A succession of three 1952 airplane crashes devastates a New Jersey community.

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Book of the Week: KEEP MOVING by Dick Van Dyke

How to stay young and vital–even at an advanced age.

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Book of the Week: UNSINKABLE: A MEMOIR by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

In the continuation of her story, the great actress/comedienne/dancer/entrepreneur remains unstoppable despite professional highs and lows, betrayals, and lousy husbands.

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May 2017 Book Recommendations

Herman Wouk’s, SAILOR AND FIDDLER: REFLECTIONS OF A 100-YEAR-OLD AUTHOR;  the novelist’s memoir about a life that has spanned two centuries. P.D. Eastman’s, ARE YOU MY MOTHER?; a baby bird goes...

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Book of the Week: SAILOR AND FIDDLER by Herman Wouk

The novelist’s memoir about a life that has spanned two centuries.

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Book of the Week: ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by P.D. Eastman

A baby bird goes searching for his mother after they are separated.

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Book of the Week: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

A widow who opens a bookshop in an English seaside town is snubbed.

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Book of the Week: SECOND HEAVEN by Judith Guest

Three very different people–a divorced absentee father, his former client, and a troubled teenager, become friends.

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Book of the Week: FIRST LADY FROM PLAINS by Rosalynn Carter

A memoir partially about the 1980 election defeat.

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June 2017 Book Recommendations

Joyce Carol Oates’s, BLACK WATER: A NOVEL; a famous senator, a beautiful girl, and an accident. Chappaquiddick re-told. Betty Rollin’s, LAST WISH; a mother suffers from painful cancer, and her daughter...

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Book of the Week: BLACK WATER: A NOVEL by Joyce Carol Oates

A famous senator, a beautiful girl, and an accident. Chappaquiddick re-told.

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Summer 2017 Reading List

Judith Rossner’s, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR Truman Capote’s, IN COLD BLOOD Harold Robbins’s, A STONE FOR DANNY FISHER   Jerzy Kosinski’s, THE PAINTED BIRD Leon Leyson’s, THE BOY ON THE WOODEN BOX Patty...

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Book of the Week: LAST WISH by Betty Rollin

Betty Rollin’s, LAST WISH; a mother suffers from painful cancer, and her daughter helps her die.

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Book of the Week: OPEN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Andre Agassi

The life–so far–of the tennis champion and education advocate.

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Book of the Week: ROOSEVELT’S SECOND ACT by Richard Moe

Richard Moe’s, ROOSEVELT’S SECOND ACT: THE ELECTION OF 1940, AND THE POLITICS OF WAR; how FDR strategically and successfully manipulated a third term in the White House.

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July 2017 Book Recommendations

Irving Stone’s, THE PRESIDENT’S LADY; a love story about Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel. Kitty Kelley’s, NANCY REAGAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY; the first lady’s life through the White House...

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Book of the Week: THE PRESIDENT’S LADY by Irving Stone

Irving Stone’s, THE PRESIDENT’S LADY; a love story about Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel.  

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