Book of the Week: THE WHITE HOTEL by D.M. Thomas
A young woman reveals her nightmare about the Holocaust to her analyst, Sigmund Freud.
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Book of the Week: DITA SAXOVA by Arnost Lustig
An eighteen-year-old concentration camp survivor reckons with her new life in Post-War Prague.
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Book of the Week: THE GREEK TREASURE by Irving Stone
A retired man and his young wife pursue Troy.
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Book of the Week: I LOVE HER, THAT’S WHY! by George Burns and Cynthia Hobart Lindsay
From poverty on the Lower East Side to years of struggle in show business; Gracie, success, and Hollywood.
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Movie of the Month: Little Women
The four March sisters toil to keep the household going, while their father is fighting in the Civil War; Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Margaret O’Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor star; based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel. (1949)
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September 2021 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: SOUTH AND WEST by Joan Didion
A journalist travels to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and California in 1970 with her husband–writer, John Gregory Dunne.
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Book of the Week: FIVE PRESIDENTS by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
A secret service agent recalls his seventeen years with the most powerful men in the world; by the authors of “Mrs. Kennedy and Me” and “Five Days in November.”
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Book of the Week: THE INHERITANCE by Louisa May Alcott
An Italian orphan is brought to England to be the companion of a lord’s daughter. Written when the author was 17, the novel was not discovered until 1988.
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Book of the Week: THE BOY ON THE WOODEN BOX by Leon Leyson
Despite six years in death camps; beatings, and hard labor, a ten-year-old boy survives the Holocaust –partially–because of Oskar Schindler.
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Movie of the Month: To Kill A Mockingbird
A white southern lawyer defends a black man against fake rape charges. Gregory Peck stars. (1962)
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August 2021 Book Recommendations
A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.