Reported by Garry
Killers of a Certain Age by
Deanna Raybourn is the thrilling tale of four 60-year-old ladies who have one
thing in common: they are all assassins. Sent on an all-expenses paid
“retirement” cruise by the organization that has employed their unique talents
for the past 40 years, the ladies quickly realize that they have been marked
for death. In order to turn the tables and survive their Farewell Tour, they
must rely on each other and their experiences to out a killer and turn the
tables in their favor. Packed with charming characters, page turning action
sequences and a great sense of humor, this book comes highly recommended by our
reader. MC
The Spinster’s Fortune by Mary
Kendall is a novel loosely based on the real Blanche Magruder. In this novel,
Blanche is an aging spinster who is placed in a home for the elderly and infirm
under the assumption that she is mentally incompetent. Her niece, Margaret has
been named executor of Blanche’s estate and must untangle the mystery of where
in her now crumbling and looted Georgetown manor Blanche has hidden the family
fortune. Our reader loved this gothic mystery with its extremely well planned
out twists and turns that kept her guessing right up to the end. KN
The Guncle by Steven Rowley is a hilarious
novel about family, love, patience, and grief that has won the NPR Book of the
Year award, and is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. Patrick
O’Hara is a former sitcom star who loves his niece and nephew – as long as he
can return them to their parents when he is finished. A series of family
tragedies strike and suddenly Patrick (or GUP, which is short for “Gay Uncle
Patrick”) finds himself as the sole caretaker of the two young children. Patrick’s
life is turned upside down by the arrival of the two under-ten children and he
has to make some drastic and quick changes to his lifestyle in order to support
and care for two children who have been uprooted from their home in Connecticut
to Palm Springs. Our reader was deeply touched by the nuanced ways that Rowley
handles situations that could, in the hands of a lesser writer, come across as
maudlin or superficial. KM
Also mentioned:
The
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The
Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Red Cotton Fields series by
Michael Strickland
Phantom by Greer
Rivers
Falling
is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance by George Locker
Daisy
Darker by Alice Feeney
Black
Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
Astray by Emma
Donoghue
Our Voice
of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandy Morin
Lark
Ascending by Silas House
Good
Medicine, Hard Times: Memoir of a Combat Physician in Iraq by
Edward P. Horvath, MD
How All
This Started by Pete Fromm
On the
Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Season of
Yellow Leaf by Douglas C. Jones
Three Men
in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome and A.
Frederics
The Call
of the Last Frontier: The True Story of
a Woman’s Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure by Melissa Cook
Tokyo
Rose – Zero Hour (A Graphic Novel): A
Japanese American Woman’s Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War
II
by Andre R. Frattino and Kate Kasenow
Dying of
Politeness by Geena Davis
This Will
Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future by
Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
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