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

by Martha Hall Kelly

I opened the book and inhaled the new-book scent—my favorite. “I wish we could just sit around and talk books all day.”

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.”

“At their meetings, they pass around a wooden spoon,” Margaret said. “Whoever has it is the one that may speak.”

Twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star.” I took a deep breath. Quoting Lucy Maud Montgomery?

martini in a jelly-jar glass,

The council viewed the ASEs as “weapons in the war of ideas” and, instead