by Mary Wickensheimer | Oct 3, 2024 | Book Club
From Amazon: New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek “Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the...
by Mary Wickensheimer | Aug 17, 2024 | Book Club
The book is Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. It is available from Amazon for under $5 and readily available at the libraries here in Boca, Delray and Boynton. Have fun reading. Listen to the Mississippi Gulf. Coast drawl. It is on audio from Kindle. Published in...
by Mary Wickensheimer | Nov 6, 2023 | Book Club
by Anna Quindlen (Author) Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life—except when there’s a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora’s dream...
by Mary Wickensheimer | Aug 21, 2023 | Book Club
by William Kent Krueger (Author) 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose...
by Mary Wickensheimer | Jun 2, 2023 | Book Club
by M. L. Stedman Amazon Link After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes...
by Mary Wickensheimer | Apr 20, 2023 | Book Club
by Kate Atkinson Amazon Link “Set during Jazz Age London, in all its fizzy madness and desperation…. As dark as [Atkinson’s] stories can get, within them always shines a beacon of humanity.” —Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Dark Places 1926, and...
