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Heir to a Secret
Melinda Richarz Lyons, 2013
TreasureLine
201 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781617521614
Summary
East Texas native Addison Cameron is devastated after the sudden death of her husband of thirty years, Eric. Even more shocking is the discovery that she is an heir to a secret. On top of coping with deep grief, Addison must also face the challenge of uncovering the truth about Eric's hidden past.
On her journey Addison meets another widow, the colorful Miranda Jones, who helps unravel the mystery. But more important, Miranda's friendship encourages Addison to find life after death and have faith that it's never too late for happily ever after.
Their road to recovery takes them through the world of paper tripping and a dangerous encounter on a dark Texas lane. Along the way Addison and Miranda are entertained by boot scootin' cowboys, on-line senior matchups, rescue calls, "worth a second try guys" and jealous confrontations.
On Addison's quest to move ahead and embrace acceptance and forgiveness, she finds herself attracted to Private Investigator Todd Baker. His romantic nature and fabulous blue eyes have Addison wondering, "Is it possible to fall in love again and have hot sex after fifty?"
Author Bio
• Birth—July 31, 1948
• Where—San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Education—B.A., University of North Texas
• Currently—Tyler, Texas
Born in San Antonio, Melinda Richarz Lyons was raised an "Air Force brat," and lived in Okinawa, Oklahoma, Alabama, Colorado, and Oregon, where she graduated high school. She attended Kilgore College in East Texas (now University of North Texas), where, as a member of the Rangerettes, she had the opportunity to perform in places like the Astrodome, The Cotton Bowl and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
In 1968 she married her college sweetheart, Sid Bailey. The couple spent a few years on the road, temporarily living in Chicago, Canada, and Atlanta while Sid played professional football. His business career then took them from Texas to Denver, Memphis, Springdale, Arkansas, Oklahoma City, and ultimately Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where they settled in 1994.
Ms. Lyons suffered a devastating loss when her husband of almost thirty-eight years died in 2005. Determined to put her life back together, she moved to Tyler, Texas a year later. In 2007, she met Tom Lyons and they were married June 14, 2009. This union blessed her with something she always wanted but never had—children and grandchildren!
In her words:
I have actually been writing creatively since I could speak. My Mother said I would sit in my crib with one of my favorite picture books, babbling away as I turned the pages. When I was eleven, a prayer I wrote was published by a national children’s Christian magazine. I got paid a whole dollar! That thrilling experience made me realize that sometimes other people actually not only like what you write, they occasionally reward you for it. I wrote a book at the age of 13, and have penned numerous stories, poems, newspaper articles and even songs over the years.
I have enough rejection letters to paper a room, but I have also had quite a few things published. It is fantastic to see your name in print, and even better to get paid. But—like most writers—I don’t do it for the money (what little there is!). I write because I have to. It is what I am supposed to do. I write for the sheer joy of writing, and that wonderful feeling I get when I know words that came from my heart and my head touched someone else.
Discussion Questions
1. Did you find the book interesting right away, and why or why not?
2. Did you feel the friendship between the two main female characters is sincere?
3. Could you identify with the female characters in any way?
4. Is the mystery behind the secret believable?
5. Is the book exciting enough?
6. Is the book free of distractions like grammatical errors?
7.Did you find the romance between older characters fun?
8. Is that realistic?
9. Did you like the mystery or the romance better, or both? Why?
(Questions courtesy of the author.)
Almost Home
Pam Jenoff, 2009
Washington Square Pess
400 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781416590705
Summary
A rich and startling novel about a woman who must face a past she'd rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that threatens her future.
Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s idyllic experience as a graduate student at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend Jared drowned in the River Cam. She swore she’d never go back—until a terminally ill friend asks her to return.
Jordan attempts to settle into her new life, taking on an urgent mission beside rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Just when she thinks there’s hope for a fresh start, a former college classmate tells her that Jared’s death was not an accident—he was murdered.
Jordan quickly learns that Jared’s research into World War II had uncovered a shameful secret, but powerful forces with everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril as she struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously close to home, the truth that threatens to change her life forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting for. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
• Education—B.A., George Washington University; M.A., Cambridge University; J.D., University of Pennsylvania
• Currently—lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Pam Jenoff was born in Maryland and raised outside Philadelphia. She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University in England.
Upon receiving her master's in history from Cambridge, she accepted an appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. The position provided a unique opportunity to witness and participate in operations at the most senior levels of government, including helping the families of the Pan Am Flight 103 victims secure their memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, observing recovery efforts at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing and attending ceremonies to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of World War II at sites such as Bastogne and Corregidor.
Following her work at the Pentagon, Pam moved to the State Department. In 1996 she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. It was during this period that Pam developed her expertise in Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust. Working on matters such as preservation of Auschwitz and the restitution of Jewish property in Poland, Pam developed close relations with the surviving Jewish community.
Pam left the Foreign Service in 1998 to attend law school and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for several years as a labor and employment attorney both at a firm and in-house in Philadelphia and now teaches law school at Rutgers.
Pam is the author of The Kommandant's Girl, which was an international bestseller and nominated for a Quill award, as well as The Diplomat's Wife, The Ambassador's Daughter, Almost Home, A Hidden Affair and The Things We Cherished.
She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and three children. (From the publisher.)
Book Reviews
An interesting, unexpected thriller, this tries—and succeeds—to mix romance with the dark arts of espionage ... Written with a flair for place and irony, it paints a very different portrait of the macho world of spooks than the one we're so often treated to, but is none the worse for that. Blessed with an edge-of-the-seat ending, Jenoff's third thriller is the antidote to Bond, leaving you stirred, if not shaken.
Daily Mail (UK)
Pam Jenoff has taken a new twist on the spy novel ... if agent Jordan Weiss may not be exactly the next James Bond, ... she may be a very credible, arguably more human, female alternative.
Times (UK)
Part thriller, part romance, Jenoff's story is a tidy package of secret financing, organised crime and a bit of stuff on the side.
Time Out
A thrilling story, imaginatively told.
Choice
A cool, contemporary romantic thriller.
Publishers Weekly
...a masterly job of blending romance, friendship, loyalty, greed, spies, the political ambitions of the rich and powerful, and a bit of shady World War II history into a suspenseful and multilayered novel.
Library Journal
This thriller delivers politics and plot.
Kirkus Reviews
Discussion Questions
1. While at Cambridge, Jordan was the only American in her group of friends. Did she feel fully accepted by her teammates, or was the fact that she was an American or a woman ever an obstacle? Did Jordan ever pretend to be someone she wasn’t?
2. "Chris once teased me about my sentimentality over what he called ‘a silly children’s film’ [Mary Poppins]. Still, perhaps he purposely chose our meeting place so close to the cathedral, since he knows how much I loved it" (pg. 62). Was this Chris’s plan? Does he attempt to manipulate Jordan throughout the novel?
3. After briefly reuniting with Chris, Jordan flees and notes "This is the second time I have fled in two days, and it isn’t like me" (pg. 72). Is this statement accurate? Consider Jordan’s career, which doesn’t allow her to stay in one place too long.
4. Jordan states that the only reason she returned to England was to care for her sick friend Sarah. However, she doesn’t spend much time with Sarah upon arriving. Is she simply too busy with work and finding the truth about Jared? What other reasons could there be?
5. Both Chris and Jordan note how driven Jared was. Why was he so determined to seek the truth?
6. "A meeting would provide an emergency escape hatch if the day in Cambridge got to be too much" (pg. 87). Are there other examples in the book of Jordan taking precautions to protect herself? Do you think these measures are a result of Jared’s death, her work with the State Department, or something else?
7. Jared remarks to Jordan that Chris "can’t stand going home alone" (pg. 126). Is this true? If so, why? And why doesn’t Chris openly share his feelings with Jordan, either before her relationship with Jared or a decade later?
8. "Social justice, my father told me once at Passover, was our obligation as Jews, to free all people from the bonds of oppression as we had once been freed" (pg. 189). Is this desire what drives Jordan? Even though she says she’s not religious, in what other ways might her religion shape who Jordan has become?
9. What could be the reason for Jared strangling Jordan while the two are both sleeping?
10. Why does Mo acquiesce to Ambassador Raines? How much of his plan was she aware of?
11. Several people end up betraying Jordan. When did you first become suspicious of these characters or the novel’s other twists? Is there anyone Jordan can truly trust?
(Questions courtesy of the author.)
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding, 2014
Knopf Doubleday
352 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780804173520
Summary
It began with a tantalizing, anonymous email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community."
What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government.
His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy.
In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story—from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story—touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector—while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself.
The result is a gripping insider narrative—and a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—1968
• Where—Great Britain
• Education—Oxford University
• Currently—lives in London, England
Luke Harding is an award-winning British foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He studied English at University College, Oxford. While there he edited the student newspaper Cherwell. He worked for the Sunday Correspondent, Evening Argus in Brighton and Daily Mail before joining the Guardian in 1996.
He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the author of Mafia State (2011) and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy (2011). He also wrote The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (1997, nominated for the Orwell Prize) and The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014). The film rights to WikiLeaks were sold to Dreamworks and the film, The Fifth Estate, came out in 2013.
Harding has lived in and reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. He currently lives in London, England, with his wife and their two children
Russian expulsion
His 2011 book Mafia State discusses Harding's experience in Russia and the political system under Vladimir Putin, which he describes as a mafia state. In February 2011 he was refused re-entry into Russia, becoming the first foreign journalist to be expelled from Russia since the end of the Cold War. The Guardian said his expulsion was linked with his unflattering coverage of Russia, including speculation about Vladimir Putin's wealth and Putin's knowledge of the London assassination of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
The director of Index on Censorship, John Kampfner, said "The Russian government's treatment of Luke Harding is petty and vindictive, and evidence—if more was needed—of the poor state of free expression in that country." Harding has said that during his time in Russia he was the subject of largely psychological harassment by the Federal Security Service, whom he alleges were unhappy at the stories he wrote.
Edward Snowden
Harding's 2014 book on Edward Snowden, The Snowden Files received positive reviews from the the Guardian and London Review of Books although a The Daily Telegraph review said, "complexity and nuance are banished. In particular, the real dilemmas of intelligence work are ignored." Michiko Kakutani wrote in her review for the New York Times that the book "reads like a le Carre novel crossed with something by Kafka."
The Snowden Files was initially criticised by Snowden associate, journalist Glenn Greenwald,* when he had only read extracts from Harding's book. Later, after reading the whole book, he conceded that it did not trash Snowden. Nontheless, on February 14, 2014 Greenwald told the Financial Times:
They are purporting to tell the inside story of Edward Snowden but it is written by someone who has never met or even spoken to Edward Snowden. Luke came here and talked to me for half a day without [my] realising that he was trying to get me to write his book for him. I cut the interview off when I realised what he was up to.
The Financial Times has since amended the article stating: "Harding insists that when he spoke to Greenwald in Rio, he made it very clear he was doing research for his book on Snowden." (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 5/6/2014.)
* Greenwald's own book—No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State—was also published in 2014.
Book Reviews
Reads like a le Carre novel crossed with something by Kafka.... A fast-paced, almost novelistic narrative.... [The book] gives readers...a succinct overview of the momentous events of the past year.... Leave[s] readers with an acute understanding of the serious issues involved.
Michiko Kakutani - New York Times
[Snowden’s] story is one of the most compelling in the history of American espionage. . . . Although the book is billed as “the inside story of the world’s most wanted man,” there is no indication that Harding had direct contact with his subject. Instead, it reads more like the inside account of Snowden’s interactions with the Guardian. The details drawn from those encounters are fascinating, if not always illuminating.The book captures the drama of Snowden’s operation in often-cinematic detail. . . . Harding has delivered a clearly written and captivating account of the Snowden leaks and their aftermath.
Greg Miller - Washington Post
Engaging and lucid... A gripping read.... Harding is a gifted writer.... The strength of Harding's book is its ability to bring Snowden's story to life while elucidating the contours of a much larger set of issues.... In rendering the complicated comprehensible in an entertaining way, Harding's book provides an important public service.
San Francisco Chronicle
The Snowden Files, the first book on what British journalist Luke Harding calls ‘the biggest intelligence leak in history,’ is a readable and thorough account. The narrative is rich in newsroom details, reflecting Harding's inside access as a correspondent for the London-based Guardian newspaper, which broke the story.... The writer deserves unqualified praise for fueling the debate on privacy that Snowden so hoped to ignite.
Newsday
A super-readable, thrillerish account of the events surrounding the reporting of the documents. . . . Harding has done an amazing—and speedy—job of assembling material from a wide variety of sources and turning it into an exciting account.
London Review of Books
Recounts the incredible story of how Snowden becomes angry about the abuses he says he witnessed inside the system, resolves to pull off a stunning electronic heist by downloading the NSA’s and its partners’ most sensitive files, and gives them to journalists he has persuaded to meet him in Hong Kong. Harding captures nicely the moment when the Guardian pushes the button on its first Snowden story, an intense, adrenaline-filled cocktail of high-minded journalistic zeal and the sheer thrill of publishing sensitive information.”
Financial Times
The telling is sympathetic towards Snowden.... And while the story sometimes lacks in insight from those directly involved and in the analysis that will be possible as we get more temporal distance from the events, Harding provides crucial context and history for the story. His compilation and synthesis of the records is useful for a reader in need of a primer.
Publishers Weekly
(Starred review.) A newsworthy, must-read book about what prompted Edward Snowden to blow the whistle on his former employer, the National Security Agency.... Harding closes with the thought that Snowden may have no other home for some time to come.... Whether you view Snowden's act as patriotic or treasonous, this fast-paced, densely detailed book is the narrative of first resort.
Kirkus Reviews
Discussion Questions
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• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
(We'll add specific questions if and when they're made available by the publisher.)
Clever Girl
Tessa Hadley, 2014
HarperCollins
272 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780062270399
Summary
Like Alice Munro and Colm Toibin, Tessa Hadley possesses the remarkable ability to transform the mundane into the sublime—an eye for the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.
In Clever Girl, she offers the indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today.
Written with the celebrated precision, intensity, and complexity that have marked her previous works, Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age.
It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama—violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley's observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles, pressing us to exclaim with each page, Yes, this is how it is. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—February 28, 1956
• Where—Bristol, England, UK
• Education—B.A., Cambridge University
• Currently—lives in London, England
Tessa Hadley is a British author born and raised in Bristol, England. Her father was a teacher who loved jazz, and her mother, a homemaker who loved painting. Her family was not devoid of literary chops: Hadley's uncle is the noted London playwright Peter Nichols.
As a girl, Tessa read extensively. She studied literature at Cambridge, which she found a "chilly, funny, odd place. Nursing idealistic dreams of changing lives, she decided to become a teacher.
It was a complete disaster. I was 23. I went to a rough comprehensive. I was political: I wanted to bring light where there was darkness. All that rubbish. I was hopeless. The kids ran rings around me. I cried on my way to school every morning.
Her misfortunes as a teacher sapped Hadley of her confidence to become an author. Additionally, two other major life events took over: marriage and children. Having attempted a book early on, it took another 23 years, plus three children and three stepchildren, before publishing her first novel in 2002. That book, Accidents in the Home, was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award.
In addition to six novels (see below) she has two volumes of short stories, both of which were New York Times Notable Books. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker.
Hadley lives in London.
Books
2002 - Accidents in the Home
2003 - Everything Will Be All Right
2007 - The Master Bedroom
2007 - Sunstroke: and Other Stories
2011 - The London Train
2012 - Married Love: and Other Stories
2013 - Clever Girl
2016 - The Past
2018 - Late in the Day
(Author bio adapted from interview in the Independent, 5/25/2013, and from the publisher.)
Book Reviews
Hadley is an immaculate stylist…Clever Girl isn't plot-driven and isn't a character study and isn't preoccupied with language, but its elements work in patient harmony. It is what could be called a "sensibility" novel—a story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power.
Meg Wolitzer - New York Times Book Review
Masterful, understated….Clever Girl, like the fiction of V.S. Pritchett or Alice McDermott, is devoted to capturing personality through small actions and expressions, to sparking characters into a vivid flame with a few exact descriptions and to distilling domestic settings into precious, even exalted significance.
Wall Street Journal
Looking for the next Kate Atkinson or Alice Munro? Pick up this lovely novel about a smart Englishwoman who’s also prickly and prone to misfortune.
People
Quietly brilliant….Hadley has always been adept at drawing out the unrecognisable from the everyday…. Domestic fiction is often disparaged as less than serious, but Hadley demonstrates admirably that the genre can carry weight.
Sunday Times (UK)
Lives which are unsophisticated yet experienced intensely, and gorgeously erudite prose are the distinguishing features of Tessa Hadley’s writing.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Like Munro, Hadley is a writer both exact and lyrical, and there are many pleasures to be found along the way, particularly her sensual descriptions of nature, adolescence, and maternity.
Guardian (UK)
Compelling…. For all Stella’s spikiness and grittiness, there is a sensuousness to Hadley’s writing which revels in richly prolix descriptions of sights and states of mind…. Hadley has a genius for pithy analysis….The result consistently rings true despite its very literary artistry.
Times (UK)
Tessa Hadley is a clever writer who likes to play with form. Like Amish quilts, her novels are made up of homespun, domestic material, delicately worked over. Then you step back and see the bold structural decisions behind their composition.
New Statesman (UK)
It’s this very ordinariness that makes Hadley’s book so captivating. Clever Girl is one of those glorious novels about nothing in particular and everything there is in life, all at the same time.
National (UK)
This is Hadley’s extraordinary skill as a novelist: to navigate and narrate the fleeting moments in an individual’s life when the future crystallises, by choice and circumstance, for good or for bad.... Clever Girl is a remarkable novel by one of this country’s finest, if most unassuming talents.
Literary Review (UK)
Accomplished, elegant.... This novel is the life story of an ordinary, middle-aged woman-Stella. Only that she is not ordinary because Tessa Hadley is writing her into existence and is behind her like a following wind…. Hadley writes as a masterly illustrator might draw.
Observer (UK)
Hadley remains so fixed in Stella’s viewpoint that whatever this stubborn, lonely, eloquent character has to tell us, we accept....Subtle, intelligent, and realistic storytelling.
Evening Standard (UK)
An intimate, engrossing and eminently English coming of middle-age story from one of Britain’s finest writers….The narrative is episodic and deeply personal, but slowly coalesces to form a mosaic of British life over the past 50 years.
Independent (UK)
Involving…. Intrigues and engages…. The smooth narrative echoes Hadley’s cool and precise prose.... There’s plenty of family drama (including murder) but Hadley’s strength is in describing what is often left unnoticed.
Financial Times (UK)
Tessa Hadley is wonderful at surprising us with the domestic dramas that stir the embers of everyday life….Her reminiscences can resemble little bombs…. Hadley can make even English weather seem enthralling.
Toronto Star
(Starred review.) Hadley’s latest is told from the point of view of Stella, a lower-middle-class British girl born in the 1950s, whose experiences coming of age mirror the broader cultural development of her times.... [T]his carefully wrought novel transcends mere character study, offering up Stella’s story as a portrait of how accidents and happenstance can cohere into a life.
Publishers Weekly
Hadley, who's captured the imagination of the well-read everywhere with books like Married Love, returns with a book that vivifies a life typically lived, as we follow Stella from childhood with a single mum in a 1960s Bristol bedsit to the ups and downs of middle age. Not a huge first printing, but watch this one, especially for book clubs.
Library Journal
Growing up in Bristol with a single mother, Stella first realizes she’s clever...[but] not clever enough to avoid becoming pregnant at 16.... Hadley displays the keen insight and masterful portrayal of the domestic life for which she has become known. But this story...is more likely to be admired for Hadley’s sheer skill than embraced. —Michele Leber
Booklist
One relatively ordinary life, chronicled from the 1950s to the 1990s in England, mirrors enormous shifts in style, attitude and choice, especially for women. Domesticity...forms the connective tissue... Hadley is a fine, insightful writer, but this memoir of a restless, bookish woman coping with a sequence of variable male figures while playing the hand life has dealt her lacks momentum.
Kirkus Reviews
Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
(We'll add specific questions if and when they're made available by the publisher.)