The Confidence Men
The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox It all started with a homemade Ouija board. In an isolated WW I prisoner-of-war camp in Yozgad, Central Anatolia, British prisoner Harry Jones, a […]
The Appeal
The Appeal by Janice Hallett The Appeal, an epistolary novel, opens with a memo from a lawyer asking two of his colleagues to review a case file. “It is best […]
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians edited by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney James Patterson, best known for his prodigious output of thrillers, is also an […]
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, […]
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 […]
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) […]
The Priory
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple For Jane Austen fans! Although not as subtle as dear Jane’s works, The Priory, published in 1939, will appeal to many Austen fans. Christine and […]
Someone at a Distance
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple The best birthday gift, a box of books! This pretty box of books is from U.K. based Persephone Books. If you are not […]
The Hare with Amber Eyes
The Hare with Amber Eyes, A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal Telling the story of the Ephrussis family through their exquisite collection of Japanese netsuke […]
Shanghai Diary
Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon For those who wanted out of Nazi Germany in the Spring of 1939, the options were limited, dangerous, and expensive. The only country who had […]
Save Me the Plums
Save Me the Plums, My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl I hate to cook, but I would gladly have worked at Gourmet magazine under the editorial leadership of Ruth Reichl. […]
Rogues’ Gallery
Rogues’ Gallery by Michael Gross American museums are peculiar institutions. Unlike their counterparts in Europe which are owned by the government or royalty, American museums were founded and funded by […]
River of the Gods
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard Having read Alan Moorehead’s best-selling books, The Blue Nile and […]