Tuesday, September 04, 2018

The Books of August





The Ladies Man by Elinor Lipman

Thirty years ago Harvey Nash failed to show up at his engagement party, jilting Adele Dobbins. Adele shortly got over Harvey, chalking him up to a heartless cad. Adele and her two sisters, Lois and Kathleen, shared a townhouse, joking about their “spinsterhood.” One cold April night Harvey Nash rang their doorbell. He has remade himself into Nash Harvey, now a successful advertising jingle writer—and still unmarried. Hoping to make amends, he asks to see Adele, but she refuses to see him. Adele is interested in her boss at the public tv station where she works. Kathleen, who owns an upscale lingerie boutique, goes for coffee with Lorenz, the building’s doorman. Divorced Lois hopes that Harvey really left Adele because he was secretly in love with her, and he is returning to finally declare his love. Clever and witty, Lipman’s book’s are populated with characters you would like to have as friends and relatives.
 


The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Run for Your Life by Mark Cucuzzella
The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman
Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Clam Wake by Mary Daheim
Gangsterland: a novel by Tod Goldberg
The Highway by CJ Box
Badlands by CJ Box
The Way Men Act by Elinor Lipman
The Bloody Black Flag: a Spider John mystery by Steve Goble
The Devil's Wind: a Spider John mystery by Steve Goble

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