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Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2020 Number one New York Times best seller Oprah’s Book Club Pick NAACP Image Award Winner An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former first lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and […]
“Painfully beautiful.”–The New York Times Book Review “Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver.”–Bustle For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya […]
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor’s Account–a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines […]
“Moving… A constant pleasure to read… Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book… Orlean, a longtime New York writer, has been captivating us with human stories for decades, and her latest book is a wide-ranging, deeply personal, and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity’s bulwark against oblivion: the library… As a narrator, Orlean […]
Book Club Schedule 2019-2020 Month Book Author Date Leader Host October The Tennis Partner Abraham Verghese Th-10-17-11 am Nina Nina Tu-10-22-7:15 pm Nina Phyllis November The Library Book Susan Orlean Th-11-21-7:15 pm Sharon Joan with guest December The Other Americans Laila Lalami Tu-12-17-7:15 pm Ellen S Fran January Where the Crawdads Sing […]
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone. When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the […]
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The […]
Book Recommendations in the Order of Submission Marsha Winer: Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Marsha Winer: When the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens Marsha Winer: Unfreedom of the Press by Mark Levin Nina Prays: This is My God by Herman Wouk Marilou Lieman: Becoming by Michelle Obama Dana Weinberg: To Catch a Traitor by D.B. […]
Amazon.com Review The Amazon Editors’ Pick for the Best Book of 2017: In the 1920s, the Osage found themselves in a unique position among Native Americans tribes. As other tribal lands were parceled out in an effort by the government to encourage dissolution and assimilation of both lands and culture, the Osage negotiated to maintain the […]
A review from www.jewishbookcouncil.org by Bob Goldfarb – June 20, 2017 Immortality has always fired the human imagination. Homer’s Odysseus spurned eternal life so that he could go home to his wife. The Christian parable of the Wandering Jew sees immortality as a curse: a Jew who mocks Jesus is punished by being unable to die until […]
