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Cheryl Jarvis
The Necklace:
Thirteen Women and the Experiment that Transformed Their Lives
Starting as an experiment by Jonelle McClain, who fell in love with a 16.5 carat diamond necklace, worth $37,000.00 and decided to buy and share ownership with 12 other women. Some were friends before, some had never met, but each of these ordinary-extraordinary women share and continue to share in the journey of "Jewelia". Their stories are diverse and precious, each one a jewel in itself.
Wonderful, lovely, and fantastic, a great idea and a good read!!!
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Kermit Moyer:
The Chester Chronicles
I loved this book! In fact once I started I couldn't put it down. Chester is one of the most endearing, poignant, funny, awkward, but tender characters I have read in a long time. He reminded me of the boys and young men of my youth. Wonderful.
Moyer has written a true gem. Chester's life is threaded like a movie reel fading in and out, chapter by chapter. He has absolutely nailed the adolescent male growing up in that magic time of the 50's and 60's. But I guess we all think are growing up years were magic years, but Chester's were for me. Terrific!!
- Joanie |
Taste and Tales of Cape Cod and the Islands
P. Ann Pieroway |
P. Ann Pieroway: Taste and Tales of Cape Cod and the Islands
A cookbook with 150 irresistable recipes from Cape Cod and the Islands culled from inns, restaurants, bed & breakfasts and vintage cookbooks plus 80 entertaining tales, written and edited by P. Ann Pieroway with cover painting and illustrations throughout by Massachusetts artist Louise Minks.
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Almost Home
Pam Jenoff |
Pam Jenoff: Almost Home
Ten years after graduate school at Cambridge, former coxswain Jordan Weiss returns to England as an intelligence officer with the State Department. Jordan's newest assignment intertwines with the news that her boyfriend Jared's death ten years earlier was not an accident. In facing her painful past,she discovers an alarming World War II secret that Jared had uncovered. Fast-paced and entertaining-I enjoy Jenoff's novels.
-Joanne |
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters |
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
Dr Faraday returns to Hundreds Hall to treat a servant girl. 30 years have passed since his mother was a parlor main in the great house. Time and the war have not been kind to the house nor the owners the Ayres. A son wounded in the RAF, a spinster sister and ailing mother living in a decaying home.
Trouble comes with the family dog inexplicably biting a visiting child, then a strange fire and suicide. - Joanie
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Lucky Everyday
Babsy Jain |
Babsy Jain: Lucky Everyday
Lucky Boyce is down on her luck - she is getting over a divorce, leaving her company in the hands of her ex in Bombay while she starts anew in Manhattan. The beauty of this book is in the specifics. She's a business whiz and the details of her job are fascinating. She volunteers to teach yoga to inmates and the philosophy that accompanies it is inspiring. A wonderful novel following the ups and downs of life in a good-hearted, complicated woman. - Caitlin
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Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife
Linda Berdoll |
Linda Berdoll: Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife
Let me warn you. This is not your average Austen, but if you love her characters of Elizabeth and Darcy and want more of their story, then this is the book for you Grab some wine, put your feet up and be prepared to laugh, cry, and fall in love with Miss Austen's characters all over again. - Joanie |
Still Alice
Lisa Genova |
Lisa Genova: Still Alice
Early-onset Alzheimers strikes 50 year old Alice Howland: a professor at Harvard, loving wife and mother. I found myself taking the "tests" with Alice and cheering her on when she prepares for hte future Alice to commit suicide. Without giving anything away I was not prepared for the ending. One of my top 5 books for this year! The author gets what it means to be in a long-term, loving marriage. -Joanne |
Outliers Malcolm Gladwell |
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell has written the most thought-provoking and accessible book. He takes topics as disparate as Canadian hockey players and Asian airlines and shows what factors really create a successful person. I stayed up way too late to finish! Great book for fans of Freakonomics and Blink. -Caitlin |
I See You Everywhere
Julia Glass |
Julia Glass: I See You Everywhere
I don't have a sister but I do have two daughters. As I read this book, I thought of them-not the same problems, not the same issues. But, they have had their share and have grown together as the sisters in this novel have. The sister bond is so real in this book. The love is deep. -Fran |
The Help
Kathryn Stockett |
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Three extraordinary women, two black and one white, embark on a risky journey of revelation in 1963 Mississippi. Thrilling, mind-boggling, suspenseful, and unthinkable, this debut novel educated me about lives in the south leading to the civil rights movement. I am not kidding: my life was put on hold until I finished this magnetic read! - Joanne |
