Book of the Week: LET’S JUST SAY IT WASN’T PRETTY by Diane Keaton
How the actress got to a comfortable self-image.
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Book of the Week: MRS. NIXON: A NOVELIST IMAGINES A LIFE by Ann Beattie
The elusive first lady, and how she might have lived.
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Book of the Week: THE MAKING OF A NAVY SEAL by Brandon Webb
From adolescent diver to SEAL sniper.
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December 2019 Book Recommendations
A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.
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Book of the Week: THE STEEP & THORNY WAY by Cat Winters
A re-interpretation of Hamlet that incorporates the power of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Oregon.
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Book of the Week: CARRIE AND ME by Carol Burnett
The actress’s daughter triumphs over drug addiction, emerges into a reputable performer/playwright, and–then–dies of lung cancer at 38.
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Book of the Week: COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns
In 1906, a Southern widower of three weeks elopes with a woman half his age, and rattles the town.
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Book of the Week: POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK by Benjamin Franklin
Wit and wisdom from America’s Leonardo; first published in 1732.
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November 2019 Book Recommendations
A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications for November 2019.
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Book of the Week: ROSA PARKS: MY STORY by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins
Detroit and Montgomery; busing and boycotts; Mother of a Movement.
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Book of the Week: AUTHOR AND AGENT by Michael Kreyling
Thirty-three years of business matters, career shaping, friendship–and affection.
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Book of the Week: GROWING UP WITH MY GRANDFATHER by Clifton Truman Daniel
Clifton Truman Daniel’s GROWING UP WITH MY GRANDFATHER: MEMORIES OF HARRY S. TRUMAN; reminiscences.