Book Talk

Eventide  by Kent Haruf Following Plainsong (RC 49056), Harold and Raymond McPheron escort nineteen-year-old Victoria and her daughter to Fort Collins so Victoria can start college. In Colorado tragedy awaits the brothers returning to their cattle ranch in rural Holt. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2004. DB60217 Hit Man Lawrence Block Ten stories that trace the...

Book Talk for March 4, 2025 James: a Novel by Percival Everett "From Percival Everett a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is...

Book Talk for Feb 25 2025 The Book Of Fate by Brad Meltzer An assassination attempt leaves twenty-three-year-old presidential aide Wes Holloway disfigured and kills deputy chief of staff Ron Boyle. But when he spots Boyle in Malaysia eight years later, Holloway discovers a labyrinthine conspiracy involving the Freemasons and Thomas Jefferson. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Commercial au...

Book Talk for February 11 2025 Temptation Ridge by Robyn Carr After years of caring for her now-deceased mother, twenty-five-year-old Shelby McIntyre moves in with her uncle in Virgin River. Shelby meets former Blackhawk pilot Luke Riordan, and the two fall in love. But Luke doesn't envision a future together. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2009. BR22730 DB68681 The mo...

Book Talk for Feb 4 2025 A Storm of Infinite Beauty: A Novel by Julianne Maclean "Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum in Nova Scotia dedicated to the Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's life. Gwen is also sole descendant and heir to Scarlett's fortune. Gwen is dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalis...

Book Talk for Jan 28, 2025 Mystery Writers of America presents the prosecution rests: new stories about courtrooms, criminals, and the law  Linda Fairstein Twenty-two short stories dealing with the criminal justice system, with themes that include lawyers, victims, liars, revenge seekers, killers, and alibi witnesses. In Joel Goldman's "Knife Fight" a female Jewish attorney defends a black, drug-d...

Book talk for January 14, 2025 Papa Married a Mormon by John Dennis Fitzgerald Cheerful reminiscences of the author's early life on the old Utah frontier where his father, a respected Roman Catholic newspaper editor, and his spunky Morman mother made an unorthodox but very happy home for their children. DB13297 The Braille Killer: An Alice Bergman Novel by Daniel Kuhnley "Blind at birth, Alice Ber...

Book talk for Jan 7 2025 Christmas At the Borrow a Book Shop by Kiley Dunbar 'Tis the season for finding love... and the perfect book! With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive... Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he...

Book Talk for October 22 2024 Sanibel Dreams 1 a Shellseeker Beach novel by Hope Holloway "When 53-year-old Eliza Whitney loses both her beloved husband and her high-powered job in the same month, she's uncertain what the next chapter of her life will look like. Then her estranged father's widow contacts her and asks her to come to Sanibel Island to help settle his affairs. Eliza sees the trip to...

Book talk for October 8 2024 Sanibel Dreams by Hope Holloway "When 53-year-old Eliza Whitney loses both her beloved husband and her high-powered job in the same month, she's uncertain what the next chapter of her life will look like. Then her estranged father's widow contacts her and asks her to come to Sanibel Island to help settle his affairs. Eliza sees the trip to a place called Shellseeker Be...

 Book talk for September 17 2024 Plain honest men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman Historian provides a day-by-day account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Uses primary and secondary sources to illustrate the debates and negotiations that raged between the states before the document's ratification. Discusses the failure to come to an agreement about...

Book talk for September 10 2024 The Sunflower Forest by Torey L Hayden Seventeen-year-old Lesley is preoccupied with high school, the prospect of college, and her first serious romance. She must also come to terms with her mother's eccentric behavior and tragic past and her father's unwillingness to deal with his wife's deteriorating mental state. Some strong language and some explicit description...

Book Talk for September 3 2024 Failure to appear by Judith A Jance Seattle police detective J. P. Beaumont follows his 18-year-old daughter Kelly when she runs away to Ashland, Oregon. He finds her pregnant and about to marry an actor in the midst of the town's Shakespeare festival. When one of Kelly's actress friends is accused of murder, Beau investigates.  Some strong language and some violence...

Book talk for august 27 2024 Straighten up and fly Right The Music and life of Nat King Cole by W Friedwald A music journalist examines the life and legacy of jazz great Nat King Cole (1919-1965). He explores his early life in Alabama, the start of his career as a successful pianist and bandleader of the Nat King Cole Trio, and the transition later in his career to solo singer. Some strong languag...

Book Talk for August 20, 2024 Blood and iron: the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918  by Katja Hoyer "This vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871–1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet a na...

Book Talk for August 13 2024 The bone collector by Jeffery Deaver Retired forensic scientist and criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is enlisted to track down a serial murderer who is stalking victims in New York City. Injured on the job and now a quadriplegic, Rhyme can move one finger--enabling him to use his computer. Assisted by policewoman Amelia Sachs, Rhyme races against time to find the killer. In...

Book Talk for August 6, 2024 Shepherds for Sale by Megan Vasham Promise me, Dad: a year of hope, hardship, and purpose  by Joseph Biden JR. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. But this year felt different. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malign...

Book talk for July 30 2024 Breathe your last by Lisa Regan Dropping off a shirt off for her brother at his college job, Detective Josie Quinn spots a body in the pool, but her attempts to save the young woman fail. How did the star swimmer--who was not dressed for practice--drown? Strong language and some violence. 2020.  DB101647 The Bodyguard Katherine Center "She's got his back. Hannah Brooks l...

Book Talk for June 25 2024 Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House  by Joseph Esposito Account of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers, scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many re...

Book talk for June 18, 2024 First Father First Daughter by Maureen Reagan "Mermie," as she was affectionately called by her father writes about growing up with the former president and about realizing her own political ambitions. Maureen's admiration for her father shows throughout the book as she writes about her childhood in Hollywood, a string of uninspiring jobs, several marriages, and her inv...