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Mother’s Day recommendations

May

7

2024

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan cover (cream background, four bird illustrations, including a hummingbird and a chickadee)

My Mother, the Reader: From Island Books’ Lori

I told my mom I was going to be writing about how much she fostered my own love of reading. She said, “You know, it all started in the library, when I had one of my first jobs as a page.” Back in the sixties, my mom was a teenager in the little desert town …

May

6

2024

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

I’m not a romantic comedy fan. But I am definitely a Romantic Comedy fan! This is great. –Karen, Beach Books, Seaside, OR From the publisher: Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for …

May

3

2021

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren

A delightful expose’ of the famous Barbizon Hotel for Women in NY City, the place where ambitious young women could live safely and in style while beginning their careers. Famous residents included the Unsinkable Molly Brown, Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Barbara Chase-Riboud, and many others. The women arrived with high hopes and great …

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