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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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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook of the Week: IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT by Judy Blume
A succession of three 1952 airplane crashes devastates a New Jersey community.
View ArticleBook of the Week: KEEP MOVING by Dick Van Dyke
How to stay young and vital–even at an advanced age.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleMay 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...
View ArticleBook of the Week: SAILOR AND FIDDLER by Herman Wouk
The novelist’s memoir about a life that has spanned two centuries.
View ArticleBook of the Week: ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by P.D. Eastman
A baby bird goes searching for his mother after they are separated.
View ArticleBook of the Week: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
A widow who opens a bookshop in an English seaside town is snubbed.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook of the Week: FIRST LADY FROM PLAINS by Rosalynn Carter
A memoir partially about the 1980 election defeat.
View ArticleJune 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...
View ArticleBook of the Week: BLACK WATER: A NOVEL by Joyce Carol Oates
A famous senator, a beautiful girl, and an accident. Chappaquiddick re-told.
View ArticleSummer 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook of the Week: OPEN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Andre Agassi
The life–so far–of the tennis champion and education advocate.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleJuly 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...
View ArticleBook 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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