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That Librarian

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones The biggest challenge facing America’s most famous librarian, Marian, was fending off the amorous attentions of Robert Preston! […]

Taste

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci In this culinary memoir, Stanley Tucci’s life experiences, from his childhood in Westchester County, New York, to film sets around the world, […]

Guilt by Association

Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark I also read the new mystery from first time novelist Marcia Clark (yes, that Marcia Clark.) Marcia is not the most gifted writer (first […]

Sisters of Fortune

Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake Decades before the “Dollar Princesses” like Consuela Vanderbilt stormed British society, there were the Caton sisters of Maryland. The Caton sisters were descendants of […]

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen I’ve been a fan of Anna Quindlen’s work for years.   I was an avid reader of her Pulitzer Prize-winning column for The […]

Still Here

Still Here, The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs The talented Broadway singer, actress, and comedian Elaine Stritch was the definition of her own worst enemy. […]

Standing in the Shadows

Standing in the Shadows a DCI Banks novel by Peter Robinson Alice Poole was murdered in 1980; the case remains unsolved. Decades later, DCI Banks and his team investigate the […]

Spain in Our Hearts

Spain in Our Hearts, Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Adam Hochschild Sum total of my knowledge of the Spanish Civil War: 1-Guernica (the painting not the city) […]

Someone

Someone by Alice McDermott Alice McDermott, a long time chronicler of the Irish American experience, has written the moving story of Marie Commeford, a short sighted girl from Brooklyn. Written […]

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