I have continued to be the keeper of the list. I have included our Christmas selection and our New Year's 2014 selection. I have also included books that we will select from later in 2014.
December-Chris at Chris's house-Washburn, Livia, The Christmas Cookie Killer
The
Yuletide is here-and retired teachercum amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom looks forward to finishing up this unlucky year. But she won't be hanging up her apron just yet-because this year's Christmas bake-off is going to be cutthroat. 272p.
January-Ellen- Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins, The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. 352p. litlovers.com
February-Linda-library- Sotomayer, Sonia, My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayer, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, she recounts her life with candor from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench. 416p
March-Fran- Hoffman, Alice, The Third Angel, Three women linked over time by love and redemption. Three weddings riddled with secrecy and betrayal. Three generations wounded by heartbreak and loss. Traveling backward through time, The Third Angel moves from modern-day London where Maddy Heller seduces her sister's fiancé to the wild days of the '60s where Frieda Lewis falls for a musician with in search of a muse, and finally to the buttoned-down '50s where Bryn Evans can't give up her complicated ex-husband. 304p. Litlovers.com
More books to select from
Franek, Valarie Four of a Kind, Brought together as committee members at their children's school, and four women assume they have nothing in common. Until they meet for each other.
Frank, Dorothy Benton, Sullivan's Island, Set on the coast of South Carolina, this book explores one woman's journey from a contentedly married middle-aged wife and mother to a newly divorced woman looking back on her past for reassurance and to the future for some means of regaining her self-esteem. 416p. litlovers.com
Vogt, Virginia,
Death By Moonlight is a double mystery. Two terrible crimes mirror each other across nearly two centuries, and both must be solved to rescue a young girl threatened by an age-old evil.
376p.
This book is written by a Morristown author. We could see if she would like to speak to our group. Norma's friend also belongs to a book club and this author spoke to her book group. If we chose this book maybe we could have her speak
in April or after.
Erdrich. Louise, Round House, National Book Award Winner One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. 336pp
Sotomayer, Sonia, My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayer, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, she recounts her life with candor from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench. 416p
Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins, The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. 352p. litlovers.com
Hoffman, Alice, The Third Angel, Three women linked over time by love and redemption. Three weddings riddled with secrecy and betrayal. Three generations wounded by heartbreak and loss. Traveling backward through time, The Third Angel moves from modern-day London where Maddy Heller seduces her sister's fiancé to the wild days of the '60s where Frieda Lewis falls for a musician with in search of a muse, and finally to the buttoned-down '50s where Bryn Evans can't give up her complicated ex-husband. 304p. Litlovers.com
McLain, Paula, The Paris Wife, This deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley.352p readinggroupguides.com
O'Reilly, Bill, Killing Kennedy- Hardback will wait until it comes into paperback.
Patton, Lisa, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter, LeeLee moved from Memphis to Vermont for her husband to follow his pipe dream of managing a quaint inn. In this funny and sad fish out water book LeeLee learns she is more resilient than she thinks she is. 312p
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Wells, Jeanette, Silver Star, The Silver Star, This is story about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world—a triumph of imagination and storytelling. 269p. Wait until it comes out in paperback
Van Allen, Lisa, The Wishing Thread, The Wishing Thread is an enchanting novel about the bonds between sisters, the indelible pull of the past, and the transformational power of love. 400p.
