Deep Down Dark
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar If you were alive in August […]
The English Girl
The English Girl by Daniel Silva Daniel Silva’s latest, The English Girl, has more plot twists than a bag of Twizzlers. Madeline Hart, the girlfriend of the married Prime Minister […]
Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles An irresponsible husband, a drunk, and an unemployable poet and translator, Benjamin R. Ford will never be nominated for a distinguished citizen award. However, […]
Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 100 years ago this month, while enroute from NYC to Liverpool, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine […]
Dark Sacred Night
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly Often a long running mystery series gets tired, but Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels are still fresh. In Dark Sacred Night, Detective Bosch, retired […]
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline I consider myself an adventurous reader. I’ll read just about anything, and in desperate times have been known to finish books I didn’t even like. […]
Dead Land
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky After Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski and her goddaughter Bernie leave a raucous meeting of the South Lakefront Improvement Council (SLICK), they pass a homeless […]
David and Goliath
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell After hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak at Belmont last month (see March newsletter), I knew I would […]
Coup
Coup by Keel Hunt Once upon a time in a land far, far away, an evil governor was selling pardons for cash. Many bad men were to be released from […]
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell When the review in The New York Times stated, “it is not unheard of for a novelist of exceptional talent to write a deliberately difficult […]
Clementine
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell When you are married to a legend, you get short shrift in the great one’s biography. And if that legend […]
City of Girls
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert After that ridiculous Eat, Pray, Love, I removed author Elizabeth Gilbert from my reading lists, forever. But on the recommendation of a friend, I […]
City of Thieves
City of Thieves by David Benioff At first glance, a novel about two young men who meet in Leningrad during the Nazi siege sounds unpromising. Russian novels (about or by) […]
All Adults Here
All Adults Hereby Emma Straub Astrid Strick is experiencing an unusual crisis of confidence. After a random traffic accident stirs up uncomfortable memories, the perennially poised and controlling sixty-eight-year-old widow […]
Citizens of London
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson Citizens of London is an account of the relationship between the Americans and British during WWII with an emphasis on the men who cultivated […]