Margot Liddell comes to us from Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in New York City. She has been a bookseller for many years and commutes all the way from Brattleboro to work at the Norwich Bookstore.
True Confections by Katharine Weber
Clever, Charming, Chewy & Choice! Weber intrigues the reader into the history of candy, human destiny, the machinations of desire and the deviousness of need...and greed. When Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky, presenting her defense, chronicles the multigenerational saga of Zip's candies, you will not be able to resist!
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
For a respite from the January cold, let Barbara Kingsolver sweep you away to the Mexico of Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo, where her young protagonist, Harrison Shepherd, begins his precarious odyssey between two nations, their politics( from Trotsky exiled in Mexico to J. Edgar Hoover in America), art and revolution, truth and its consequences.
The Privileges
by Jonathan Dee
Under Dee's gleeful scrutiny, the rise ...and rise and ...almost dissolution of an American family dwelling in the high society strata of New York is revealed with brilliant insight . Once immersed in this family, one cannot leave....it is a spellbinder! If you liked Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections you will be totally enamored of
The Privileges.
Lush Life
by Richard Price
The pulse of New York City virtually throbs in this gripping police procedural by the incomparably attuned to the sounds, smells and sights of the urban underbelly, novelist Richard Price.
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
This profoundly heartfelt, wrenching portrayal of two families, one black, one white, in 1946 Mississippi Delta reveals the many complexities of familial love and the ugly passions ingrained by racial bigotry in the rural South. A stunningly powerful debut novel!