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Book of the Week for August 29, 2022

Leaving Home by Art Buchwald

After bumping around in different foster homes during childhood, the humorist ends up at the Hebrew Asylum in Paris. Volume...

Book of the Week for August 22, 2022

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

The journalist writes about his 17-year-old son’s death from a brain tumor.

Book of the Week for August 11, 2022

Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian L. Weiss

A traditional psychiatrist becomes a believer in past lives while treating a traumatized patient.

Book of the Week for August 08, 2022

Autobiography Of A Face by Lucy Grealy

A young woman withstands facial disfiguration from childhood cancer, and thirty reconstructive surgeries.

Movie of the Month for August 2022

Fried Green Tomatoes

An unhappy housewife befriends a woman in a nursing home and becomes enthralled by her stories.

August 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 August 01, 2022

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley

Without his alpha-ambitious, mother, the crooner’s career would not have been the same.

Fostering A Love Of History

History explains who we are and where we are going. Without these principles fixed in place, one cannot mature into...

Book of the Week for July 25, 2022

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

A novel about three decades in a woman’s life, and the emerging changes.

Book of the Week for July 18, 2022

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped The Presidents by Bonnie Angelo

How eleven Chief Executives were guided prior to their marriages.

Book of the Week for July 11, 2022

The Colossus by Sylvia Plath

Anguished “confessions” in verse.

Book of the Week for July 04, 2022

Coming Into The End Zone:
A Memoir by Doris Grumbach

At seventy, the author takes a look back at the friendships and losses; decisions and debacles, that affected her life.