Marilyn Bowman, Edisto Island Public Library: “This book looks at how different people react to tragedies in their lives, yet it is very uplifting. A man who has an unexplained tragedy in his past meets a 7-year-old girl who is living a tragedy in her life now. However, the author makes us love these characters and ultimately come to root for them.”
Tama Howard: “Whiplash is an American independent film that stars Miles Teller as Andrew Neiman, a talented and ambitious first-year drumming student at the prestigious Shaffer Music Conservatory. He is instructed by a hardcore and relentless jazz musician played by J.K. Simmons who was awarded Oscar for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role.”
Nonfiction by Amy Ellis Nutt: My favorite book so far in 2016 is Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt, who is also a science writer for the Washington Post. This book is a very well written nonfiction account of twins – both born as boys – one of whom knows at a very early age that he/she is different.
Longmire, TV series: Westerns are not really my favorite, but the TV series “Longmire” is an exception. This series is set in present day Wyoming, though it’s actually filmed in New Mexico. The scenery is quite rugged and beautiful.
The Scam, a novel by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg: In the newest installment of the O’Hare and Fox series, FBI Agent Kate O’Hare and con man Nicholas Fox continue to secretly work together to bring down the bad guys, one elaborate scam at a time.
A novel by Julianna Baggott: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders is a sweeping family saga that spans four generations of Wolf women and their countless family secrets. Harriet Wolf is the famously reclusive author of a wildly successful series that chronicles the love and life of Daisy and Weldon. However, at the time of Harriet’s death, the seventh and final book has not been published and speculations abound— did Harriet Wolf write the seventh book at all? If so, where it is? If the book does exist, it could be worth millions.
Melissa Tunstall: “Every story has more than one side to it — particularly marriages, which is central to Laura Groff’s Fates and Furies. However, Groff does not intend to tell a story about everyone’s marriage. No, for Groff, Fates and Furies is truly only about Mathilde and Lancelot, who goes by the nickname Lotto.”
“Deek” Diedrickson, a builder, designer and advocate for simple living, takes readers into the fascinating world of tiny spaces and the people who inhabit them.
The novels of the Dick Francis series were always entertaining, centering around the ex-jockey’s love of horses and steeplechase races. Unfortunately, the author died in 2010, but the series continues with his younger son, Felix, now the author.
Delicious! tells the tale of Billie Breslin, a Californian in her early twenties who takes a job as an assistant at the most iconic food magazine in New York. Billie has an unusual talent for identifying spices and combining flavors, which attracts the attention of her new colleagues and culinary acquaintances in the city. When Delicious is surprisingly shut down, Billie is offered a job to stay behind in the magazine’s deserted downtown mansion offices to answer the magazines “Delicious Guarantee” and respond to complaints and recipe inquiries from the public.
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