March's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Magnolia Palace (March 24)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, March 24.  Our title is Fiona Davis' The Magnolia Palace.  Here is a brief summary:

"A tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City . . .  a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in OhioLINK and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing The Tobacco Wives, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their February 17 meeting:

• The Boys from Biloxi, John Grisham 
• Lucy By The Sea, Elizabeth Strout
• Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
• Lark Ascending, Silas House
• Teaching Interculturally, Amy Lee
• Queen of the Desert, Fergus Manson
• Desert Queen, Janet Wallach
• The Enchanted Hour, Meghan Gurdon
• Bravehearted: the Women of the American West, Katie Hickman
• Mark Twain's Autobiography
• The League of Pensioners series, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules)
• Either/Or, Elif Batuman

We will meet at 12 pm on the 24th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

"Frick Garden Court HDR" by gorbould is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.