Category: To-Read

July 19, 2012

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich

A Jewish midwife in 16th Century Venice, by edict of the Pope, is forbidden from delivering a Christian baby setting up an ethical dilemma for the protagonist.

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July 19, 2012

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee

A biography of cancer, winner of the Pulitzer and recommended by friends.

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May 21, 2012

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Nancy Pearl, NPR, says, “C.J. Sansom’s Dissolution is the first in a series of historical mysteries set in Tudor England during the reign of Henry...

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April 20, 2012

Island beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Allende’s novel recounts Haiti’s slave revolt in 1804.

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April 20, 2012

Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander

Asulander’s account of finding Anne Frank still alive and writing in his parent’s attic in upstate NY.

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December 29, 2011

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

Hitchen’s esophageal cancer inevitably throws a shadow over this spirited, provocative, prodigiously witty collection.

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December 29, 2011

A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block

NPR Book Summary 17th in the Scudder series. When a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins as per the...

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December 29, 2011

Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan

NPR Book Summary Eleventh book in this series. Investigating a rumor about new paintings by a famous contemporary Chinese artist who has been dead for...

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December 29, 2011

Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner

NPR Book Summary Traces the history of the CIA from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the organization...

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December 29, 2011

The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer

Autobiography of how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust.

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