Posts by Callie C

This week’s shelf is packed with suspense in both fiction and nonfiction selections.  The impacts of war, of secrets, and family choices are all topics developed by authors both familiar and new.   City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the experiences of a theater insider in 1940s…

Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma (LTAIO) Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma is a great way to connect with neighbors over books and ideas.  It is a reading and discussion series which consists of 4-5 sessions, each featuring a book from the chosen discussion theme. A humanities scholar opens each session telling about the author’s life,…

A fat shelf full of great reads, both fiction and nonfiction.  Stock up for your summer vacation!   The Big Kahuna by Janet Evanovich When unlikely partners FBI agent Kate O’Hare and con man Nicholas Fox investigate a missing Silicon Valley billionaire known as the Big Kahuna, they go undercover as a married couple in…

This week’s list includes a book that has been compared to The Handmaid’s Tale, a book about the book Harper Lee didn’t write, and a plethora of books about family secrets, mysteries and love.   Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new…

There’s nothing better than curling up in your favorite chair with a good book on a rainy night…or stretched out on a beach towel on a sunny day.  Check these out!   13-Minute Murder by James Patterson An elite assassin takes a last job before retirement only to find himself in a cat-and-mouse game opposite…

The incredible beauty of our planet and the danger it is in are topics of several of this week’s books along with books about taking better care of our own bodies.  Throw in a few more about justice, or the lack thereof, and you have potential causes with which to get involved.  It can start…