Dopesick
Dopesick by Beth Macy The opioid epidemic is a multi-faceted problem, but in her latest book, Dopesick, Beth Macy explores how-we-got here, starting with the introduction of OxyContin by Purdue […]
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield Published in 1930, Diary of a Provincial Lady is the gently satiric fictional diary of an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire […]
Deep Down Dark
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar If you were alive in August […]
The English Girl
The English Girl by Daniel Silva Daniel Silva’s latest, The English Girl, has more plot twists than a bag of Twizzlers. Madeline Hart, the girlfriend of the married Prime Minister […]
Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles An irresponsible husband, a drunk, and an unemployable poet and translator, Benjamin R. Ford will never be nominated for a distinguished citizen award. However, […]
Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 100 years ago this month, while enroute from NYC to Liverpool, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine […]
Dark Sacred Night
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly Often a long running mystery series gets tired, but Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels are still fresh. In Dark Sacred Night, Detective Bosch, retired […]
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline I consider myself an adventurous reader. I’ll read just about anything, and in desperate times have been known to finish books I didn’t even like. […]
Dead Land
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky After Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski and her goddaughter Bernie leave a raucous meeting of the South Lakefront Improvement Council (SLICK), they pass a homeless […]
David and Goliath
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell After hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak at Belmont last month (see March newsletter), I knew I would […]