If you’re reading this, it’s safe to guess you’re fond of books, reading, and being transported to different times, places, experiences, and viewpoints. We invite you to check out what others are reading and share your recommendations of favorite titles with us. And if you are weeding your bookshelves, consider offering your recent fiction books to The Lake House library. Please drop them off at the library and librarian Cindy Willis will organize them and put them on the shelves.
Courtiers
by Valentine Low
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? (2023; Nonfiction)
Penelope Fitzgerald
by Hermione Lee
Prize-winning author of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Virginia Woolf, Lee here gives British writer Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) the royal treatment in a work that is as much social history as it is biography. (2023; Nonfiction)
The First Ladies
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune–an unlikely friendship that changed the world. (2023; Fiction)
Money Rock
by Pamela Sue Kelley
A former reporter for The Charlotte Observer, Pam Kelley has won honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Features Journalism. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies–racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration–help shape individual destinies. (2018; Nonfiction)
Florence Adler Swims Forever
by Rachel Beanland
Beanland beautifully handles the depiction of loss and rebuilding life without a loved one, describing moments that are by turns painful and moving. The thick emotional tension will please fans of character-driven historicals. (2020; Fiction)
The Latecomer
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Latecomer revolves around the wealthy New York-based Oppenheimer family, where the Oppenheimer triplets’ lives are upended by the arrival of a fourth, unexpected sibling. (2022; Fiction)
Under Jerusalem
by Andrew Lawler
This is a 150-year history of the ground just beneath one of the world’s holiest cities. It examines the way that archaeology has not only fueled academic disputes but has contributed to some of the bloodiest chapters in Israel’s modern history. With an eye on both the past and the future, Lawler reveals how more than a century of researchers sparked a revolution in the Middle East, one whose reverberations we continue to feel. (2021; Nonfiction)
The Good Kings
by Kara Cooney
Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country’s 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. (2021; Nonfiction)
We look forward to hearing about the books you or your book club recommend.
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–Tidelines Editors
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