by Donna Rueff | Sep 3, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Larry McMurtry (2008) September 2022 Someone has to say it: Larry McMurtry was an over-achiever! ONE successful career is enough for most people, but not for McMurtry, who died in 2021. He’s most widely known for his popular books and other written materials about...
by T Wilson | Aug 11, 2022 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robots Life: 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark Our Reader found this book a little hard to read and did not finish it. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke After the discovery of an asteroid...
by Donna Rueff | Aug 1, 2022 | Books by the Beach
The Book Collectors by Delphine Minoui (2017) and Syria’s Secret Library by Mike Thomson (2019) August 2022 One day during a pause in bombing in the Syrian civil war, a young Syrian man on the rebel side took a walk through the devastated town of Daraya, his...
by Donna Rueff | Jul 11, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Kerri Maher (2022) July 2022 Sylvia Beach, an American, fell madly in love with Paris when vacationing there with her family in her mid-teens. She spent nearly 15 years devising various plans for moving to Paris, finally settling on the idea of opening a French...
by T Wilson | Jul 11, 2022 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Diversity The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon In 1904 the United States was inundated with an influx of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and many other European nations. The Irish were looked down upon by others. People had more children than...