Book Recommendations

October 2018 Book Recommendations

George Eliot’s MIDDLEMARCH; the secrets and quirky inhabitants of a 19th century provincial town. Irving Stone’s THE PASSIONS OF THE...

September 2018 Book Recommendations

Charles Osgood’s DEFENDING BALTIMORE AGAINST ENEMY ATTACK: A BOYHOOD YEAR DURING WORLD WAR II; thoughts about combat from a boy’s...

Book of the Week for August 17, 2018

Ruffles And Flourishes by Liz Carpenter

Inside the Johnson White House, according to Lady Bird’s press secretary.

August 2018 Book Recommendations

A. Scott Berg’s KATE REMEMBERED; a biography compiled from hours of interviews with Hepburn. Barbara Feldon’s LIVING ALONE & LOVING...

July 2018 Book Recommendations

Eli Wallach’s THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND ME: IN MY ANECDOTAGE; a memoir by the versatile actor of Broadway, screen–and...

June 2018 Book Recommendations

Bette Davis’s THIS ‘N THAT; the actress takes on her mastectomy, stroke, and daughter’s kiss-and-tell book. Gene Tierney’s and Mickey...

May 2018 Book Recommendations

David Niven’s, THE MOON’S A BALLOON; Hollywood in its heyday; volume one of the actor’s memoirs. Anthony Quinn’s and Daniel...

April 2018 Book Recommendations

Jim Bishop’s THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT; a tense hour-by-hour account of the assassination and its aftermath. Rebecca Stead’s WHEN...

March 2018 Book Recommendations

Judith Rossner’s ATTACHMENTS; two close female friends fall in love with Siamese twins. Carson McCullers’s, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING;...

February 2018 Book Recommendations

Shashi Ishai’s, ASK AVIGAIL: ADVICE FROM A BIBLICAL-ERA SAGETTE; a Dear Abby-like sage from the times of Moses tarries with Erma Bombeck...

January 2018 Book Recommendations

Toni Tennille’s and Caroline Tennille St. Clair’s, TONI TENNILLE: A MEMOIR; the singer’s dark and unhappy life with Daryl Dragon....

December 2017 Book Recommendations

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s and Sandra Harmon’s, ELVIS AND ME; her version of their story. Isabella Leitner’s, FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA: A...