The popular “Books Sandwiched In” series, sponsored by the Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries, keeps the pages during as local bookworms share their insights on a favorite book.
Each Monday, March 7-April 18, noon-12:45 p.m., enjoy hearing enlightening book reviews of today’s most compelling and relevant novels at Oklahoma Methodist Manor’s Fleming Center, 4134 E. 31st St. You may bring your lunch to enjoy during the reviews.
March 7 – Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some 20 years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch – Scout – struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Originally written in the mid-1950s,
Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before
To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
REVIEWER: Ruth Weston, Ph.D., retired Professor of English
March 14 - Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross and A Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
This is the thrilling narrative history of two men – President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross – who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Andrew Jackson – war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South – whose first major initiative as president instigated the massive expulsion of
Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. John Ross – a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat – who used the United States’ own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson.
REVIEWER - Rich Fisher, host, “StudioTulsa,” KWGS Public Radio 89.5
No Review on March 21
March 28 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII German-occupied, war-torn France set the tone for a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.
REVIEWER - Emily Hecker, native Tulsan, French citizen, and Communications Consultant
April 4 - The Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford
Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler’s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than 22 years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World.” Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935’s deadly “Storm of the Century” and its sweeping destruction of “the railroad that crossed an ocean” to terrifying life.
REVIEWER - Glenda Silvey, journalist, narrator and reading addict
April 11 - The Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki
When turncoat Benedict Arnold aided the British during the Revolutionary War, he wasn’t acting alone. Orchestrating the espionage was his spouse, the beautiful socialite Peggy Shippen, whose treachery nearly cost the fledgling nation its fight for freedom. Author Allison Pataki brings to life an intriguing slice of American history, told from
the perspective of Peggy’s maid, Clara Bell, who must decide where her own loyalties lie.
REVIEWER - Georgia Snoke, former ballet dancer and teacher, newspaper columnist, and television reporter
April 18 - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
This is an intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler.
REVIEWER - David Rader, former Head Football Coach, University of Tulsa
For more information on Books Sandwiched In, call the AskUs Hotline, 918-549-7323, or visit the library’s webpage, www.tulsalibrary.org.
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