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Honor
Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Honor (9/8/2021)
There is modern India and there is backward villages India. In a village where a Muslim and a Hindi would never marry...where women are treated as the property of men. Reporter Smita, who has secrets of her own as a youngster in India, reports the brutal story that takes …more
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
The Personal Librarian (2/1/2021)
The fascinating story of Bella Da Costa Greene begins for the reader in 1905. She went from working at the library at Princeton University to becoming the personal librarian to Junius Morgan, better known as J.P. Morgan. Even though her father was the first African American …more
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
Mystery of Mrs. Christie (11/4/2020)
Another winner by Marie Benedict!

Agatha Christie has 11 days of her life unaccounted. Was she abducted? Did she commit suicide? Was she doing research for a new mystery novel? Was she escaping from a loveless marriage? These and other questions are posed as we read this …more
Afterlife
Afterlife
by Julia Alvarez
Afterlife (2/12/2020)
Life goes on. Perhaps differently than one's master plan. After newly retired college professor Antonia's husband, Sam suddenly dies, she faces living her shattered life. She finds herself facing many side shows. There is a strong Latino bond of sisterhood with her three …more
Greek to Me
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
Greek to Me (2/13/2019)
After reading Greek to Me, I am ready to reread The Iliad and the Odyssey, and a few classic Greek plays. I marvel how Mary Morris learned the Greek alphabet, learned to speak Greek, and apply the Greek root word to the English counterpart. Her love of Greek and Greece is …more
Clock Dance
Clock Dance: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Clock Dance (7/10/2018)
I love Anne Tyler! Here is another book where nothing seems to be happening, but becoming part of Willa Drake's life is like being with an old friend. She appears to many to be weak, but she is actually a strong woman who eventually gets what she wants out of life. Not only …more
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
by Mario Giordano
Auntie Poldi Sicilian Lions (1/7/2018)
This book did not "grab" me right away. Perhaps the translation wasn't perfect. But, once I got past all that, it was a fun light read. Auntie Poldi, a sixty year old Auntie Mame type character, was of Italian ancestry but raised in Germany. After her parents died she sold …more
Strangers in Budapest
Strangers in Budapest
by Jessica Keener
Strangers in Budapest (10/25/2017)
Budapest is a beautiful city, but the people are just emerging from living under a communist nation. It is almost like they are afraid to be happy. This is what Annie and Will found when they moved there with their infant son. He is trying to work with the people of …more
Young Jane Young
Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Young Jane Young (7/3/2017)
Never underestimate the power of a mother, or social media! Aviva, a summer intern for a congressman, reveals something to her mother. Is Mother morally responsible to "fix It"? Does Aviva blogging about it on social media make it worse? These dilemmas spin the web for the …more
Victoria
Victoria
by Daisy Goodwin
Victoria (10/30/2016)
How could a very sheltered 18 year old girl cope with suddenly becoming the queen of England? The book, Victoria, gives us a glance of the first few years of her reign. The book is, more or less, a love story of her feelings for the father figure and kind prime minister. As …more
The Book That Matters Most
The Book That Matters Most: A Novel
by Ann Hood
The Book That Matters Most (6/1/2016)
Book club members rejoice! The title of this books is also the theme for Ava's book club for a year. Besides learning more of the symbolism of each chosen title, we can see how it ties into the daily life of members. Add to that trying to figure out what really happened to …more
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
by Melanie Benjamin
The Swans of Fifth Avenue (10/30/2015)
I was so drawn into the characters of this book that I thought of them even when I was not reading. They are the people of that era, the "women who lunch" in New York all dressed up to impress, each with her own personal secret. Truman Capote was engulfed with his "swans". …more
The Nightingale
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale (10/8/2014)
I found myself thinking of these characters even when I was not reading the book. The story of the Germans occupying France during World War II has been told many times, but Kristin Hannah painted a vivid picture of the characters and the times. I easily pictured the …more
Accidents of Marriage
Accidents of Marriage
by Randy Susan Meyers
Accidents of Marriage (6/11/2014)
What constitutes verbal or emotional abuse? Can a person who is esteemed at his office be so different at home? The author makes the reader aware of what can happen when anger cannot be controlled. An entire family, and extended family, is shattered when the parents are …more
Mimi Malloy, At Last!
Mimi Malloy, At Last!
by Julia MacDonnell
Mimi Malloy, At Last! (2/14/2014)
Mimi Malloy, who recently lost her job, is the Irish American mother of six grown daughters. A genealogy questionnaire for a nephew's school project opens doors to her mind that closed long ago. The quote, "forget too much, risk forgetting who you are" makes her delve into …more
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
by Nancy Horan
Under the Wide and Starry Sky (11/5/2013)
What an adventure Fanny lived! She fled to Europe with her 3 children to escape a bad marriage. She fell in love, and eventually married a man 10 years her junior. The story gives us insight into the life of Robert Louis Stevenson...his life long struggle with a fibroid …more
How the Light Gets In
How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #9
by Louise Penny
How The Light Gets In (7/16/2013)
Although I would have had a clearer picture of the plot if I had read the previous books, I immediately became engulfed into the world of Armand Gamache. The description of the village Three Pines was so vivid I could picture it all. Interwoven in the main plot was the …more
The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
The Aviator's Wife (12/5/2012)
What a great story! The author has wet my appetite to want to dig further into the biographies of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh. His personal determination and organization overpowered all who had contact with him, including his family. It was also interesting …more
Live by Night
Live by Night
by Dennis Lehane
Live by Night (7/30/2012)
I was hooked from the first sentence, the line did not slacken until the last sentence. Gangster and bookleggers were brought to life from Boston to Tampa to Cuba. They are humanized as the reader delves into their dark lives. The actions so vivid, it was almost like …more
The Innocents
The Innocents: A Novel
by Francesca Segal
The Innocents (5/12/2012)
Reading this introduced me to many Jewish customs and gave me a new knowledge of the special holidays celebrated. The story itself is one told many times; wanting what we can't have.
Marketed as a recasting of Edith Wharton's, The Age of Innocence, it is a pleasant read that …more
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