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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.

Book of the Week for March 25, 2022

Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life In Letters by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner

Ambitious, difficult, and tragic: a First Lady’s correspondence, 1840-1882.

Book of the Week for March 20, 2022

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

In 1950s England, a religious, gadfly spinster interferes in the lives of others.

Book of the Week for March 14, 2022

Dancing In The Light by Shirley MacLaine

After garnering an Oscar for Terms of Endearment, a celebrated return to Broadway in a one-woman show, and turning fifty,...

Book of the Week for March 06, 2022

Adversary In The House by Irving Stone

A historical novel about Eugene Debs, a 1920 Presidential candidate, and relentless advocate of Union reform.

March 2022 Book Recommendations

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