October 26 at 7 PM; in person or Zoom
The October Book Club selection is Xochitl Gonzales’s debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming. From BookOfTheMonth.com: It is 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo are well known in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, and Olga is the wedding planner for Manhattan’s […]
Adult Fiction The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci Alias Emma, Ava Glass The Bodyguard, Katherine Center Brother Alive, Zain Khalid The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston Elektra, Jennifer Saint The Girl in His Shadow, Audrey Blake The Girl Who Survived, Lisa Jackson The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina, Zoreida Cordova The It Girl, Ruth Ware The Measure, Nikki […]
Adult Fiction A Face To Die For, Iris Johansen Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand Escape, James Patterson and David Ellis Children of Dune, Frank Herbert The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, Nancy Atherton Listen To Me, Tess Gerritsen Suspects, Danielle Steel Down A Dark Road, […]
My thrice weekly walk, referred to commonly as “going around the lake,” takes me down Old College Road, along the Rail Trail to Channel Road, then all the way up Maple Street before I turn right and return home to the corner of Elbow Pond and Old College Roads. Neighbors and dogs greet me, as […]
Good grief! It’s still summer, and that’s the way I like to see August – full of sunny possibilities for reading. However, two of the tomes that await me might actually block out the sun. One is Annie Proulx’s “Barkskins,” a 713-page exploration of the woodcutters and loggers in the New World from 1693 onward. […]
Adult Fiction The Book Woman’s Daughter, Kim Michele Richardson Cat Shining Bright, Shirley Rousseau Murphy Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover The Secret Place, Tana French This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub Vigil Harbor, Julia Glass Dark Tides, Philippa Gregory The Last Tudor, Philippa Gregory Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner Another Kind of Eden, James Lee Burke Every Cloak […]
Adult Fiction The German Wife, Kelly Rimmer Hatchet Island, Paul Doiron The Heart of the Deal, Lindsay MacMillan Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager The Lies I Tell, Julie Clark The Lost Summers of Newport, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White Nightwork, Nora Roberts Someone […]
These three books will guarantee a more positive outlook on life as the summer season begins: “Just Help! How to Build a Better World” by Sonia Sotomayor “The Welcome Chair” by Rosemary Wells “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible” by Dr. Albert Bourla. Dr. Bourla’s book is about the race to […]