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Book of the Week for October 30, 2016

Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

Unaware of his sterility, Joe Saul’s wife commits adultery so her husband can have his long-desired child.

Book of the Week for October 24, 2016

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS; the 1919 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel shows the decline of a wealthy family–in part from the introduction of...

Book of the Week for October 17, 2016

The Night Of The Iguana by Tennessee Williams

A coterie of lonely-hearts are stuck together in a squalid Mexican hotel.

Book of the Week for October 10, 2016

No Bed Of Roses by Joan Fontaine

The actress’s career and lifelong rivalry with her Oscar-winning sister, Olivia de Havilland.

Book of the Week for October 03, 2016

The World According To Garp by John Irving

The intricately intersecting lives of an illegitimate son and his feminist mother.

Book of the Week for September 26, 2016

Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather

Trouble starts when a married engineer re-discovers a former lover. Published in 1912, this was the author’s debut novel.

Grateful American Book Prize Will Be Awarded To Author Chris Stevenson For His Revolutionary War Novel The Drum Of Destiny

Chris Stevenson, a lawyer from Tippecanoe County, IN, is the winner of the 2016 Grateful American Book Prize for his...

Book of the Week for September 19, 2016

Please Don’t Eat The Daisies by Jean Kerr

The vagaries of parenting six children. Later the book morphed into a Doris Day-David Niven movie, and a television show.

Book of the Week for September 12, 2016

The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss

Dick and Sally were having a dull day, until the cat arrived.

Federation Of State Humanities Councils Cites Grateful American Book Prize

The Grateful American Book Prize was cited in the Federation of State Humanities Councils newsletter.

Book of the Week for September 05, 2016

The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

A boy and two elderly women observe life–from a tree.

Book of the Week for August 29, 2016

The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann

Robin Stone’s rise in the media world turns ruthless.