July 2016 Book Recommendations Betty Rollins’s, LAST WISH; the author of FIRST, YOU CRY, helps her terminally ill mother die. CALL ME ANNA; THE... Read More
Your Summer 2016 Reading List 1. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 3. Forever by Judy... Read More
June 2016 Book Recommendations Calvin Coolidge’s, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE; the 30th President’s life story. Thomas J. Craughwell’s, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S CREME BRULEE; During... Read More
Books For Mother’s Day 2016 Nancy Friday’s, MY MOTHER/MY SELF: THE DAUGHTER’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY Herman Wouk’s, MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR Anne Tyler’s, BACK WHEN WE WERE... Read More
May 2016 Book Recommendations Barbara Walters’, HOW TO TALK WITH PRACTICALLY ANYBODY ABOUT PRACTICALLY ANYTHING; the art of the interview from the woman who... Read More
April 2016 Book Recommendations Eleanor Roosevelt’s, TOMORROW IS NOW; Perspectives about the world. The former First Lady’s last book. Judith Guest’s, ORDINARY PEOPLE; a... Read More
March 2016 Book Recommendations Maya Angelou’s, I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS; From Southern racism and rape to independence and renown. Volume 1... Read More
February 2016 Book Recommendations Anne Truitt’s, DAYBOOK; observations by the sculptor about her childhood, marriage, kids, and career. Madeleine L’Engle’s, A WRINKLE IN TIME;... Read More
January 2016 Book Recommendations Lucille Ball’s, LOVE, LUCY; the comedienne’s autobiography; discovered posthumously. Lauren Bacall’s, BY MYSELF; Hollywood, Bogart, Robards and Sinatra. The actress’s... Read More
Books To Read At The Start Of 2016 Sloan Wilson’s, THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT; “GRAY”: a disappointed 1950s corporate “striver” finds gratitude. John Williams’s, STONER;... Read More
December 2015 Book Recommendations PROFILES IN COURAGE by John F. Kennedy Heroes–to the future President. TRUMAN by David McCullough A definitive and fun-to-read biography... Read More
November 2015 Book Recommendations THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY by Eudora Welty A selection of the author’s stellar oeuvre. ALL IN A LIFETIME... Read More