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 New York who discovers that she does not have to…

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, giving historical context to the book, sharing its contemporary relevance,…

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 Paia, Maui, to find the man’s son. The Book Woman…