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July 2022 Book Recommendations

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

Movie of the Month for July 2022

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The Extra Terrestrial

A boy garners the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home.

Book of the Week for June 23, 2022

My Memoir by Edith Bolling Wilson

The life of President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife –with some “convenient” omissions.

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Summer 2022 Reading Recommendations

Book of the Week for June 17, 2022

Truman by David MCullough

From Haberasher to senator; vice president and the White House; a comprehensive biography of the 33rd president of the United...

Book of the Week for June 10, 2022

Dean & Me (a Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan

Sharing fame, fortune, fraternity, and failure with Dean Martin.

Book of the Week for June 06, 2022

Off Stage by Betty Comden

Early success with Singin' in the Rain and On the Town birthed a sixty-year collaboration--the longest in musical history.

Movie of the Month for June 2022

Hello, Dolly!

In 1890s New York, the scheming widow-socialite, Dolly Levi, manipulates a wealthy man into marrying her.

June 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 May 29, 2022

All Of A Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

A quintet of books about the adventures of a Jewish family in New York; before and after World War I.

Book of the Week for May 23, 2022

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

An unlucky actress challenged by bleak circumstances, pivots to alcohol and drugs for comfort.

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...