By Invitation Only byJodi Della Femina

A wonderful book that gave me an insider's look at the big money, big romance, food wars, catering wars, restaurant wars, local newspaper fights, and comical vendettas that make East Hampton, America's most talked about small town.

The Chosen by Chaim Potak

This is a classic novel about the unlikely friendship that develops between two boys in 1940's Brooklyn. Reuven Malther is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny Saunders is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe. Together they navigate the emotional terrain of adolescence and the demands of family and a crisis of faith when stories of the Holocaust begin to emerge on the shores of America.

The Chosen is a profound, deeply moving story of Fathers and Sons and of the enduring power of love.