by envisionmg | Mar 11, 2022 | Alissa Recommends, Readalike
My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress – this book about Anna Delvey (the infamous subject of Inventing Anna), written by her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – this book is written...
by envisionmg | Mar 9, 2022 | What The Director Is Reading
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Winner of the Printz Award for best teen fiction of the year, this thriller features part-Obijwe native Daunis Fontaine, newly graduated from high school and about to start college in the fall. When a brutal...
by envisionmg | Mar 7, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth Weiss. The Sisters Sweet is the debut novel of author Elizabeth Weiss. The story is set in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and narrated by Harriet. Harriet and her twin sister Josie are the daughters of Maud and Lenny. Maude is a former...
by envisionmg | Mar 4, 2022 | Jim Recommends
Some of the books that I have setting on my nightstand waiting to be read The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo the Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that...
by envisionmg | Mar 2, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman This beautiful, heartbreaking story takes place in a small Australian town in 1968. Tom Hope, a farmer, is a dependable, solid man who suffers many painful losses. Tom’s wife, Trudy, leaves him, and then shows up a...