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Book of the Week for May 16, 2022

Live Alone And Like It by Marjorie Hillis

Tips about interior design, diet, dress, entertaining, selecting hobbies and saving; living meaningfully without a husband. Written in 1936, the...

Book of the Week for May 09, 2022

How I Got To Be Perfect by Jean Kerr

More domestic humor from the author of Please Don’t Eat The Daisies, and The Snake Has All The Lines.

Movie of the Month for May 2022

Erin Brockovich

A woman reveals a cover-up about contaminated water, causes a community to get seriously ill; Julia Roberts and Albert Finney...

May 2022 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for April 29, 2022

Little Birds: Erotica by Anaïs Nin

The moods and manifestations of passion, by the French novelist and diarist.

Book of the Week for April 22, 2022

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Inside a mental institution, a rebellious patient turns the ward upside down, and challenges the dictatorial power of the Head...

Book of the Week for April 15, 2022

Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler

The morning after his retirement, a fifth grade teacher wakes up in a hospital without remembering why.

Book of the Week for April 07, 2022

One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A novel about the ascent–and fall–of the Buendia family in the mythical town of Macondo.

Movie of the Month for April 2022

Driving Miss Daisy

After an elderly Jewish woman gets into a crash, her son hires an African American chauffeur, whom she grows to...

Book of the Week for April 01, 2022

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow

A London author begins a correspondence with a group that was begun to defy the German occupation of the Channel...

April 2022 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Remembering Charles E. Smith

Head of School Rabbi Mitchel Malkus sits down with David Bruce Smith to share his reflections of his grandfather.