May 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Gentleman in Moscow By: Amor Towles In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel for writing a poem that is determined by a Bolshevik tribunal to be subversive. But, in spite of his imprisonment, the Count goes on to live a...
Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations By: Thomas Friedman The title of this book comes the author’s experience of waiting for a friend whose lateness, rather than seeming rude, was a welcome respite that allowed him to...
Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
News of the World By: Paulette Jiles News of the World is set in Texas in the 1870s, and the story will bring to mind such western classics as True Grit and The Searchers. Captain Jefferson Kidd is a 70-year old veteran of two wars. Widowed, his children grown, and...
Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
News of the World By: Paulette Jiles News of the World is set in Texas in the 1870s, and the story will bring to mind such western classics as True Grit and The Searchers. Captain Jefferson Kidd is a 70-year old veteran of two wars. Widowed, his children grown, and...
Aug 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Snapper By: Brian Kimberling Nathan Lochmueller has a love/hate relationship with his Indiana home: He says: “Vermont also has moose and mountains and other natural glories…But they don’t—can’t—call my name the way Indiana woodland used to; the Ohio and Wabash River...