by: Linda Rutledge Goodreads description: Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it […]
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Upcoming Books for June 2023
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A Likely Story
By: Leigh McMullan Abramson Goodreads description: Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Timesbestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took […]
Still Life
By: Sarah Winman Goodreads description: Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from […]
I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai Goodreads description: A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances […]
Pineapple Street
by: Jenny Jackson Goodreads description: Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully guarded, old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. Sasha, middle-class and from New England, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family and finds herself cast as the arriviste […]
April/May 2023 Tidbit
Helen says: Hmmm…I would have to say American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. That was probably the most disturbing book I have ever read. The movie did not do it justice! I would run for the hills and change my number on that one… Holly says: This one is a toss-up between Mexican Gothic and […]
Upcoming Books for May 2023
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Age of Vice
by: Deepti Kapoor Goodreads description: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything,and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the […]
The Miniaturist
by: Jessie Burton Goodreads description: On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse […]
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