April’s Books

One of the best books of the month was Susan Wicklund's "This common secret: my journey as an abortion doctor." Wicklund became an abortion provider when she graduated from medical school. She writes of how she had to sneak into clinics, sometimes in disguise, the death threats, the toll her profession took on her family and marriage. Sometimes the protesters who reviled her sought treatment from her. She spent 20 years making sure women had access to safe and legal abortions. It is the story of a caring and courageous woman.

Max, Gerry. Horizon chasers: the lives and adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney
Barnes, Gregory. Biography of Lillian and George Willoughby: twentieth-century Quaker peace activists
Wicklund, Susan. This common secret: my journey as an abortion doctor
Levine, Laura. Killer blonde
Monette, Sarah. The mirador
Kercheval, Jesse Lee. The Alice stories
Rabe, Jean. Fenzig’s forture
Combes. Mark. Running wrecked: a Phil Riley novel
Coben, Harlan. Gone for good
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater: the rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army
Apps, Jerold W. In a pickle: a family farm story
Rock, Rose. Mama Rock’s rules: ten lessons for raising a houseful of successful children
Gasperetti, J.A. Landon’s odyssey
Berghaus, Bob. Black and blue: a smash-mouth history of the NFL’s roughest division
Heth, Edward Harris. My life on earth
Stoob, W. Nervous systems
Koethe, John. The constructor: poems
Standiford, Les. Meet you in hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America