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Book of the Week for September 16, 2024

Your Public Best by Lillian Brown

How to look, feel, and exude confidence in front of any audience.

Book of the Week for September 09, 2024

Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene Francis and Florence Rome

Once the most popular woman in America, Francis appeared on “What’s My Line” for a quarter of a century.

Book of the Week for September 02, 2024

The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark

A prosecutor investigates a suicide that looks more like a murder.

September 2024 Newsletter

A Meaningful Return to Character

Movie of the Month for September 2024

The Fountainhead

An ambitious architect resists compromising his standards for the stodgy establishment.

September 2024 Book Recommendations

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

What to Watch for September 2024

Self Made: Inspired By The Life Of Madam C. J. Walker

An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.

Book of the Week for August 26, 2024

Open Heart by Elie Wiesel

The author-humanitarian-Nobel Prize laureate looks back on his life.

Book of the Week for August 19, 2024

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

The author’s semi-autobiographical play about growing up in Brooklyn during the Depression.

Book of the Week for August 12, 2024

Shirley Jones: A Memoir by Shirley Jones and Wendy Leigh

The star of Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Music Man, and television’s The Partridge Family was the only actress to hold an...

Book of the Week for August 04, 2024

The Ballad Of Gussie And Clyde A TRUE STORY ABOUT TRUE LOVE

by Aaron Latham

The author “finds” companionship for his widowed father.

Movie of the Month for August 2024

I Remember Mama

An immigrant Norwegian family gradually acclimates to San Francisco