“The Wedding People”
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Fiction: “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach
“The Wedding People”
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years— she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan— which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
Nonfiction: “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
“An Unfinished Love Story’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
Youth: “Eat Your Wooly Mammoths!: Two Million Years of the World’s Most Amazing Food Facts, from the Stone Age to the Future” by James Solheim.
“Eat Your Wooly Mammoths!”
Recipes and descriptions of some of the unusual and inventive foods humans have eaten throughout the ages.
