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
October 2015 Book Recommendations THE MIRACLE WORKER: A PLAY by William Gibson The blind, deaf, and mute, Helen Keller is taught to communicate by... Read More
September 2015 Book Recommendations THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY by Irving Stone A historical novel about Michelangelo. MY MOTHER/MYSELF by Nancy Friday A study of... Read More
August 2015 Book Recommendations INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer Not everyone who plans to climb Mt. Everest survives. THE INTIMATE LIVES OF THE... Read More
July 2015 Book Recommendations THE EDEN EXPRESS: A MEMOIR OF SCHIZOPHRENIA by Mark Vonnegut From sanity to psychosis and back. A memoir. SHADY LADY by Ruth... Read More
Books For The Fourth Of July And Other Occasions The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh and Marie Nonnast Eloise and the Big Parade by Kay Thompson and... Read More
Books For Father’s Day Father’s Day brings to mind wonderful books – to be read and shared. 1. David McCullough’s THE WRIGHT BROTHERS 2.... Read More
June 2015 Book Recommendations AUGUST by Judith Rossner A patient’s relationship with her analyst. MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS by Truman Capote Intelligently observed short fiction and... Read More
May 2015 Book Recommendations THE BOXCAR CHILDREN by Gertrude Chandler Warner Book One of the series. Four homeless, orphaned siblings discover they have a grandfather,... Read More
April 2015 Book Recommendations GO ASK ALICE A diary about a teenager’s terrifying addiction to drugs–written by “ANONYMOUS.” THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott... Read More
March 2015 Book Recommendations DON’T FALL OFF THE MOUNTAIN By Shirley MacLaine The Actress’s 1970 debut book about her growing up years in Virginia,... Read More