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	THE GHOST AT THE TABLE, BY SUZANNE BERNE [Fiction] The place is the family home in Concord, Massachusetts. The main characters are two sisters who get along fine-- as long as they are on opposite coasts of the U.S. They have come together to place their elderly and estranged father in a home. Old tensions resurface as they prepare to have Thanksgiving dinner together. And there is the old mystery of how their mother died. . .
	THE THINGS THAT MATTER: WHAT SEVEN CLASSIC NOVELS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE STAGES OF LIFE, BY EDWARD MENDELSON [Non-Fiction] This is a new approach to looking at some of the great classics as they relate to stages in our own lives. The author is a professor at Columbia University, who leads us to new understandings of these seven books that so many of us have enjoyed.
	RICOCHET, BY SANDRA BROWN [Fiction] This is a gripping thriller by one of our most popular and prodigious romance authors. The plot twists and turns in beautiful Savannah with surprises right to the last page. The detective is a hard-hitting moral man with a passion for justice and a tough female partner. The villain is a handsome drug lord. There is also a prominent judge and his beautiful wife. I think this is one of Sandra Brown’s best books, actually reminiscent of Lisa Scottoline.
	THE THIRTEENTH TALE, BY DIANE SETTERFIELD [Fiction] All the elements of a gothic novel are here: the dark ruins of a house destroyed by fire, the haunting of ghosts, abandoned babies, and strange family secrets. Young Margaret Lea, a bookseller’s daughter, has been summoned by the dying author, Vida Winter, to write her biography, her thirteenth tale. The strange family story that evolves has many twists and turns, making the book hard to put down.
	LEONARD WOOLF: A BIOGRAPHY, BY VICTORIA GLENDINNING [Biography] This is a meticulous portrait of the man who adored and protected his brilliant wife, Virginia. For the first time, Leonard Woolf’s story is told-- from his early years, to his years at Cambridge, where he meets and develops a life-long relationship with the prominent authors of this period and who later form the Bloomsbury Group. The long struggles and sacrifices he suffers in order to create the necessary environment in which Virginia can write her memorable and brilliant novels is documented with great tenderness by Glendinning. The author continues to explore Leonard’s life and his widely influential political writings as well as his literary genius. A wonderfully satisfying book, revealing much about this fascinating and great figure in early 20^th century Britain, with the history of this period well documented.

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