After traveling the country with his mother, Amory attends St. Regis prep school, even though lazy, manages somehow to have his pick of Ivy Leagues
The fictional story of Harrison William Sheppard, a quite boy of a dull American bureaucrat and a saucy Mexican mother. Sheppard spends his childhood in Mexico
A fictional, fast paced page turner, set mostly in days preceding the Normandy invasion in WWII. The story’s unlikely hero is recruited by Churchill for MI5.
A series of written short stories which ultimately get intertwined, around Philippe Petit stringing a cable between the two towers of the World Trade Center
The story is not a simple good vs. evil, the characters are flushed out, each has his or hers good side and bad side – shades of gray.
What I found enjoyable in “The Confirmation” was the inside knowledge on how decisions were made, regardless of the politics of parties (the liberal left are the opposition)
Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa -A confused teenager, Hailey and her older brother turn to G-d, and befriend Moses who dreams of opening a drive thru church.
Cutting for Stone is a glorious family / medical saga covering multiple generations and locations. Marion, the narrator, is an emotional and intelligent person
In A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True the author fashions the tale in a fairytale like narrative spiced with European / Yiddish humor
The first of 15 books in the Oz series and tells the story of Dorothy from Kansas who was swooped with her dog Toto by a mighty wind to the Land of Oz.
