March 2018 Book Recommendations Judith Rossner’s ATTACHMENTS; two close female friends fall in love with Siamese twins. Carson McCullers’s, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING;... Read More
February 2018 Book Recommendations Shashi Ishai’s, ASK AVIGAIL: ADVICE FROM A BIBLICAL-ERA SAGETTE; a Dear Abby-like sage from the times of Moses tarries with Erma Bombeck... Read More
January 2018 Book Recommendations Toni Tennille’s and Caroline Tennille St. Clair’s, TONI TENNILLE: A MEMOIR; the singer’s dark and unhappy life with Daryl Dragon.... Read More
December 2017 Book Recommendations Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s and Sandra Harmon’s, ELVIS AND ME; her version of their story. Isabella Leitner’s, FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA: A... Read More
November 2017 Book Recommendations Kate Chopin’s, THE AWAKENING; a woman who feels trapped in her marriage looks for love and relief. Stephen Crane’s, MAGGIE:... Read More
October 2017 Book Recommendations Robert St. John’s, JEWS, JUSTICE AND JUDAISM; a history of the Jewish people. Evelyn Keyes’s, SCARLETT O’HARA’S YOUNGER SISTER: MY... Read More
September 2017 Book Recommendations Brooke Hayward’s, HAYWIRE; a famous and beautiful actress-mother, a successful-agent father, and a secret, hellish household. Dr. Haim Ginott’s, BETWEEN... Read More
August 2017 Book Recommendations Faye Moskowitz’s, PEACE IN THE HOUSE: TALES FROM A YIDDISH KITCHEN; autobiographical stories about the “old” world and the new.... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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,... Read More
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... Read More