Our Reader’s Advisors are always coming up with new and exciting titles for you to check out! On this blog, we will post various book-related news and reviews, as well as our monthly Book Lovers Annotations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club that meets once a month, and annotated by one of our diligent Reader’s Advisors.
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2019 November 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Nicole Chung wrote this memoir about her struggle for her own identity. She was born to Korean parents who had come to the US but released her…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2019 October 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Dominicana by Angie Cruz The author has based her story on the life of her mother. In 1965, 15 year old Ana marries a man nearly twice her age and moves from the Dominican…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2019 September 26, 2019 - All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital in 2009 with no memory of her past. She discovers a cache of letters in her home which start to jog her memory. The…
- Book Lovers Recommendations August 2019 August 13, 2019 - All That You Leave Behind By Erin Lee Carr Journalist David Carr died suddenly at age 58. He left behind twin daughters and lots of memories; this memoir was written by one of his surviving children. Talent as well as…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2019 July 29, 2019 - Alternative Remedies for Loss By Joanna Cantor Olivia is 22 and has left college to care for her mother. After her mother’s death, Olivia finds that the rest of her family is moving on, but she is adrift. She finds…
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2019 June 25, 2019 - All the Rivers By Dorit Rabinyan A young Jewish woman, studying in New York in 2003, meets a handsome painter, who is Palestinian, also living in New York. Their attraction is strong, but when each one returns; one to Tel…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2019 May 15, 2019 - The Art of Dying Well By Katy Butler This is a non-fiction book that offers practical advice for people as they age. We have many books on preparing for childbirth and child development, but not much to help us prepare…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2019 April 22, 2019 - The Age of Light By Whitney Scharer This is the fictionalized story of Lee Miller, who was a Vogue model in the 1920’s. She aspired to be a photographer and travelled to Paris where she met the surrealistic photographer, Man…
- Book Lovers Recommendations March 2019 March 22, 2019 - The Au Pair By Emma Rous Seraphine Mayes never understood why her mother threw herself off a cliff on their Norfolk estate right after she gave birth to Seraphine and her twin brother, which just so happened to be the…