Weekly Book List: Week 43 (Biography/Memoir)
America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Sarah Bradford A portrait of an American icon chronicles the rise of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from “debutante of the year” in 1947 through...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 44 (Magic in Book)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norrell, who has regained some of the power of England’s magicians from the...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 45 (Plays)
Ivanov / Anton Chekhov “Ivanov” is the story of its title character, Nikolai Ivanov, who is severely conflicted by the illness of his wife, his mounting debts and his own internal desires. A taut...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 46 (True Crime)
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders / Vincent Bugliosi The prosecutor of the Tate-LaBianca trials presents the inside story behind the Manson killings, explaining how Charles Manson...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 47 (Unreliable Narrator)
The Blind Assassin / Margaret Atwood Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 48 (Takes place on an Island)
Island Beneath the Sea / Isabel Allende The story of Tete a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine on the island of Saint-Domingue , determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 49 (940s and up)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Katherine Boo Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief,...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 50 (Set During Christmas)
The Gift / Cecelia Ahern Despite job stress and a crumbling home life, workaholic businessman Lou Suffern gives Gabe, a homeless man, a job in his company’s mail room; but the mysterious Gabe seems be...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 51 (Lesser Known Works of Famous Authors)
Romola / George Eliot In the Florence of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Romola falls in love with a handsome, seemingly intellectual young man, but as their marriage disintegrates, Romola becomes intrigued by...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 52 (Self-Improvement)
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead / Brene Brown Discusses how to embrace vulnerability in order to live whole, courageous lives,...
View Article