May
Read a book where the relationships between mothers and daughters are a theme. We suggest Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble, The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs and The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
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In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it…
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It's Eleanor who began the Friday night get-togethers. What started as three women gradually grows to include six different and disparate women, who become a circle of friends. They include one wife, three mothers, three singletons and five working women. All of them, variously, value Friday nights.
And then one of them meets a man --- an enigmatic, significant man --- and the whole dynamic changes...
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Teddy is a successful Los Angeles lawyer whose charm and political skills have made him a leading U.S. Senate candidate. But behind the golden public persona lie some darker truths: his teenage daughter has barely spoken to him since his divorce from her mother and he has long been bitterly estranged from his own mother.
When an urgent phone call from his sister brings Teddy back to Nantucket, he unexpectedly finds the life he never knew he wanted.
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston. The two eventually married, but conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love.
But one phone call from his former mother-in-law changes everything. And so days later, Keeper comes away with a son he never knew he had, and life all of a sudden takes on a new meaning.
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Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there. The writer is Isaac Babel. The great author of Red Cavalry is spending his last days forbidden to write, his final manuscripts consigned to the archivist, Pavel Dubrov, who will ultimately be charged with destroying them. The emotional jolt of meeting Babel face-to-face leads to a reckless decision: he will save the last stories of the author he reveres, whatever the cost.
Eleanor Coppola's first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, was hailed as “one of the most revealing of all first hand looks at the movies” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner).
In Notes on a Life, Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past 20 years.
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Author Mildred Armstrong Kalish grew up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. In Little Heathens, Kalish offers a loving but realistic portrait of a “hearty-handshake Methodist” family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp.”
For May we have TWO very special opportunities for Registered Book Groups. Our featured titles this month are The Safefy of Secrets by DeLaune Michel and The Space Between Before and After by Jean Reynolds Page. Groups who have registered with us by Monday, May 12th have the chance to win author chats and free books. If your group is not registered, click here to register.
