Lynda Cohen Loigman

Oct 30, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Lynda Cohen Loigman

Write your own review! Elizabeth@Silver'sReviews A gem and a Can that really be Irving living in the same retirement complex as Augusta? Irving was Augusta’s first love, but he broke her heart and married another. Augusta worked in her father‘s pharmacy, and Irving was the delivery boy. Sixty years later even though they loved each other for that long, they never had contacted each other. Can they rekindle their love?

Oct 11, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Lynda Cohen Loigman

Missed opportunities, mistakes and misunderstandings all combine with marvelous characters, interesting historical context and a bit of magic to create a novel that takes us from 1922 to 1987, through the eyes of our two protagonists. Augusta Stern grew up in New York, has worked there her whole life, and has no desire to leave her job as a hospital pharmacist.

Oct 8, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lynda Cohen Loigman |Colleen Hoover

For anyone who believes in second chances. An octogenarian’s past comes bubbling to the surface when she begins a new chapter in her life. Growing up in 1920s Brooklyn, Augusta Stern had two heroes. First, her father, Solomon Stern, a well-respected pharmacist. Second, her great-aunt Esther, who moved in with the Sterns after Augusta’s mother died and deals in medicinals in a less conventional way.

Oct 8, 2024 | readinggroupguides.com | Lynda Cohen Loigman

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning 80, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs, an active senior community in southern Florida, she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy --- and the man who broke her heart 60 years earlier.

Jul 29, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Susan Maguire |Jungeun Yun |Lynda Cohen Loigman |Jayne Allen

First published July 29, 2024 (Booklist Online). On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, we’ve got lots and lots of reading suggestions. First, host Susan Maguire is joined by Rebecca Vnuk, Executive Director, LibraryReads, for a mini-Read ‘n’ Rave, a version of the hit program that Booklist and LibraryReads host at ALA Annual.