Book Club Reads
Culled from the favorites of three East Coast Book Clubs.
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Recent Book Club Favorites:
Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Fifteen Dogs – Alexis Andre
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Safe Keep – Yael Van Der Wouden
The Vesper Wilds – Lauren Groff
Our 2020 Covid List – In case you missed them:
| American Dirt- Jeannine Cummins |
| Apeirogon-Colum McCann |
| Ask Again, Yes –Mary Beth Keane |
| Behold The Dreamers –Imbolo Mbue |
| Bel Canto –Ann Patchett |
| Born A Crime- Trevor Noah |
| Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman |
| Fates and Furfies – Lauren Groff |
| In The Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende |
| Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood |
| Pachinko –Min Jin Lee |
| Tattooist Artist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris |
| The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell- Robert Dugoni |
| The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah |
| The Great Believers –Rebecca Makkai |
| The Inn At Lake Devine –Elinor Lipman |
| The Man with a Load of Mischief –Martha Grimes |
| The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey |
| The Storyteller’s Secret – Sejal Badani |
| This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger |
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Laurence Shames
Location – Key West FL
Laurence Shames
Laurence Shames is the author of more than twenty books. Four of them have been New York Times bestsellers; seven have been optioned for feature film. His comic crime fiction has earned him Great Britain’s prestigious Last Laugh Dagger and has been called “as enjoyable as a day at the beach” by USA Today.
Shames was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and graduated from NYU in 1972. Before turning to writing full-time in 1976, he briefly and unhappily held jobs as a taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover, lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman.
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James Crumley
in memorium
Crumley was the quintessential novelist for post Vietnam War America. His disillusion was equal to his romantic streak, the both of them stoked by abundant appetites and consumption of just about every substance under the sun. He was a slumming poet in the vein of his icon, Chandler, and a consummate writer’s writer, capable of more feeling and more beauty in a sentence than many authors could fit into a book. Ask your favorite crime writer for a list of their most admired books and the odds are you’ll find The Last Good Kiss or some other adventure from the C.W. Sughrue or Milo Milodragovitch series among them.
(Crimereads)
A special crime novel 
A look at Vietnam
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Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby has made a life out of writing and singing about life. With bands Last Roundup and the Shams in eighties NYC East Village to her solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife out of nineties Williamsburg; through a songwriting career in 2000s Nashville and during the past decade with duo partner Wreckless Eric, she’s released records on visionary independent labels Rounder, Matador, Signature Sounds and reborn Stiff Records as well as her and Eric’s own Southern Domestic Recordings. The Old Guys, her first solo album in a dozen years, measures the weight of heroes, home; family, friends and time. Philip Roth and Bob Dylan, CD/cassette players, touring, the wisdom of age and Walter White, groupies, Robert Altman, egg creams and mentors are paid tribute. Twelve songs written by Amy and recorded by Wreckless Eric in upstate New York, The Old Guys is the sound of a good girl grown up, never giving up.
Now a memoir joins her music. Girl to City, out now.
