Category: Book Recommendations

FICTION Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini. In 1861, Elizabeth Keckley was chosen to be Mrs. Lincoln’s “modiste.” Ms. Keckley was an uneducated slave […]

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MYSTERIES In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson. A town in England is flooded and deserted. It reappears decades later during a drought. […]

FICTION The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. This is a love story and tragedy involving sugar beet farming, alcoholism, environmental issues, complicated relationships, and more. […]

FICTION Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer. Based on a real 1726 hoax in an English town. Describes how Mary Toft […]

FICTION In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders (author of Lincoln in the Bardo.)  Short stories by a writer with an imaginative mind, focusing on […]

FICTION The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. This classic work is set in New Orleans in the late 1950s. It is the story of […]

FICTION Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. Newlyweds arrive in Lisbon, where the husband disappears. The local police,  the American Embassy, and the CIA get […]

FICTION Second Growth by Ruth Moore. This 1962 book by a  well-known Maine author is the insightful story of a struggling small Down East town. […]