Dick Van Dyke and Tal McThenia’s 100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100; from roles in Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the theater, to family life, alcoholism, family tragedies, and re-discovering love late in life.

Natalie Wexler’s A MOST OBEDIENT WIFE; two wives in Washington’s inaugural Supreme Court–with nothing in common, except troubled marriages–become friends.

Helene Hanff’s THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET; an Anglophile finally makes it to London; the sequel to 84 Charing Cross Road.

John Steinbeck’s THE PEARL; a poor Mexican finds a pearl that brings destruction to his family; written in 1947.