Wondering what to read next? These five new books were published in August and might interest you. These books were discussed on the morning radio show with Sally B. on WJMC 1240 AM on Wednesday, August 11.
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Juliet by Anne Fortier An American woman, Julie Jacobs, travels to Siena, Italy, in search of her heritage, and discovers that she is descended from 14th century Giulietta Tomei, whose love story inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Julie’s search leads her to her distant relatives who are still feuding and still struggling under the curse of the friar who wished a plague on both their houses. Julie fights to understand the families’ animosity in the past and present. |
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Fragile by Lisa Unger When psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Detective Jones Cooper, find out that their son’s girlfriend has disappeared, they wonder if she ran off to live in New York City. However, her disappearance dredges up old memories in this small town and remind people of a girl’s disappearance and death 20 years prior. Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion falls on their son Rick. |
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Garden of Betrayal by Lee Vance This tense thriller mixes current event concerns with family drama. Mark Wallace is an independent energy analyst who is offered secret research that appears to predict just how much crude the Saudis expect to pump before the depletion of their oil reserves. In the course of authenticating this data, Mark finds himself increasingly entangled in an ever-widening mystery that becomes personal as several of his friends are murdered and may even have answers about the fate of his missing son. |
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The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory Gregory now details the life of Margaret Beaufort, Henry VIII’s grandmother. Divine visions give her an unwavering conviction about her future greatness. She pours her ambition into her son Henry. Constantly separated from her beloved child after her second marriage to a pacifist knight, her frustrations are palpably felt. While England seethes with discord during the turbulent Wars of the Roses, Margaret’s transformation from powerless innocent to political mastermind progresses believably as rival heirs to England’s throne are killed in battle, executed, or deliberately eliminated. |
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I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman Eliza was kidnapped and held hostage when she was 15 by a serial murder who was ultimately sentenced to Death Row. She survived the experience and eventually became a full-time housewife with a successful husband and a daughter and a son. This book explores her response when her former tormenter contacts her weeks before his execution. It is a powerful story about fear, manipulation, and survival. |
So you have a garden. What do you plan to do with all the food that comes out of it? Some people are able to share the vegetables with friends and family. Others are able to sell the excess at Farmers Markets. However, if you would like to enjoy the taste of summer all year long, what do you do? Food preservation includes these techniques:
August is the perfect month for watching the night skies. The weather is mild and most nights are clear. The Perseid meteor shower has its peak on August 12. The moon sets around 10 pm that night. The best opportunity to see a shooting star will be after midnight, and you might see a few dozen meteors each hour.
A meteor shower occurs when the number of meteors increase during a small span of time. It happens when a comet orbits the sun. As the comet passes near Earth, small pieces of rock spin off and collide with Earth. Meteor showers are named by the star constellation from which it appears to originate. For example, the Perseid meteor shower is named after the Perseus constellation. The Perseid meteor shower happens each year in August.
