September's Books

Isabel's Bed is another funny and clever novel from Eleanor Lipman, wno always hits the mark with her average women who end up finding Mr. Right in unlikely places. Harriet Mahoney is a forty-something would-be writer who get dumped by her live-in boyfriend of twelve years. He runs a bagel shop and wants her to vacate their apartment, for he has found his soul mate in a younger woman. Desperate, Harriet answers an ad in the New York Review of Books to share a cottage on Cape Cod with a woman who is looking for a ghostwriter to writer her biography. The woman is Isabel Krug, a woman with a scandalous past. Problem is, Isabel won't tell the truth. While Harriet is discovering what Isabel is hiding, she also discovers her own ambitions.

Paradise Valley by CJ Box
Big Woods by May Cobb
The Reference Librarians Bible by Sowards and Chenoweth, editors
Raspberry Danish Murder by Joanne Fluke
Winter and Night by SJ Rozan
Deader Homes and Gardens by Joan Hess
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman
Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen

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