The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club: A Novel

by Martha Hall Kelly

We will make the world a better place by first being better ourselves by reading, then sharing what we know with others, simply and humbly.”

“Why should we be cowed by Major Gil? If we can’t move heaven, we’ll just raise hell.”

Why did people just believe everything they were told without questioning and not think for themselves? Hitler had done pretty well with that. The German people swallowed whatever he told them. Mr. Schmidt had always said that’s what would eventually be Germany’s downfall—hearing only what they wanted to believe.