Material Offered
PAULA DEEN – A Memoir – It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen. Paula “tells all” on herself… from earliest days, to fighting debilitating agoraphobia, to her highly successful FOOD Network career. This down-home cook/character inspires us and passes on lots of tried and true recipes – in fact, one at the end of every chapter! Your club might want to make it a Paula Deen day.
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, a best seller by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This beautiful WW II novel presents characters of charm and depth, humanity and inhumanity, joy and sorrow and above all, courage and conviction. We’ll follow British writer Juliet Ashton (aka Izzy Bickerstaff) as she strikes up a remarkable correspondence with a “book club” of Guernsey Channel Islanders emerging from five years of German occupation. If you haven’t read it, you’ll want to and if you have, you’ll embrace it all over again.
BEING MARTHA (The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life) by Lloyd Allen. Whether you love Martha or don’t, she is a fascinating feature of the American experience. I think you’ll enjoy my take on Martha’s story as told by her former neighbor and old friend, author Lloyd Allen. We’ve heard Martha say it so many times…”It’s a good thing.”
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO (How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less) by Terry Ryan. This overview of the book which has an interesting Dallas connection is true to the Judith Stone commentary in O Magazine of “A good-natured memoir as compelling as a commercial jingle.” It is a true story you will find interesting, uplifting and fun.
FOREVER, ERMA, a compilation of 195 of Erma Bombeck’s most requested and best loved columns by Erma Bombeck. Wit, wisdom and social commentary…she held up a mirror to America. This is presented with personal comments and in a conversational style--a light and fun hour.
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