Dick Estell continues reading from
The Associate
by John Grisham
Doubleday, NY 2009
(since June 4)
Kyle McAvoy excelled in college and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. His future had limitless potential. But Kyle has kept a dark secret about an episode in college -- a secret that falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want, even thought it's job most law students can only dream about.
Shortly after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associated at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
The Associate features all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world.
Beginning July 13
A Son of the Game: A Story of Golf, Going Home, and Sharing Life's Lessons
by James Dodson
Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2009
In his New York Times-best seller, Final Rounds, James Dodson, and his ailing father revisited the various golf courses they had played together when James was just learning the game. Now, in A Son of the Game: A Story of Golf, Going Home, and Sharing Life's Lessons, he turns to the world-renowned courses of Pinehurst searching for a renewal of spirit...a new direction for his life. Slowly he begins to realize that his homecoming has a larger purpose: he has the chance to pass along his love of the game to his own son, Jack, just as his father had done for him.
A wonderful storyteller, Dodson weaves the history of Sand Hill's golf into his remarkable anecdotes about the games and its unforgettable players, and, in the process, tells his own personal story about of the bonds between him and his son.
Beginning August 11
Roads to Quoz
by William Least Heat-Moon
Little Brown and Company, NY 2008
For the firs time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon returns to the back roads in search of what he calls "Quoz" -- things strange, incongruous, or peculiar.
Heat-Moon and his wife wife "Q" travel across New Mexico deserts, into a Florida swamp, on the to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and down an abandoned railroad in Idaho into a western cafe serving pickle pie.
The highlights of these journeys are the people the author meets along the way and their stories, like the man who tried to fund a school for disadvantaged children by providing lonely widows with special massages.
Heat-Moon's prose over the last few decades is still quick-witted with equal parts humor and wisdom.
