Why would a comfortably retired couple of lawyers—she finding success as a mystery writer, he as a nature photographer, both avid hikers and skiers—devote a significant chunk of their money […]
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The Part That Burns
What do you remember? What do you choose to forget? Author Jeannine Ouellette describes The Part That Burns as “a memoir in fragments.” That’s an accurate assessment of the way […]
Read MoreTree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
When you hear the word dendrochronology, what comes to mind? Perhaps a varnished cross-section of some long-dead giant tree, with colored arrows pointing to the rings that mark events in […]
Read MoreWherever the Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van
Part travelogue, part memoir, Wherever the Road Leads will satisfy any reader’s wanderlust. The author, Katie Lang-Slattery, and her then-husband Tom, traversed four continents in their VW bus from 1971-1973. […]
Read MoreEdith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick
This is a fascinating, well-researched book about the life of John D. Rockefeller’s most intelligent, creative and misunderstood child. Edith was the fourth of five children born into the richest […]
Read MoreHearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
“For years, I was stuck in limbo between two worlds: never quite deaf enough or quite hearing enough to perfectly fit in one side or another.” Jaipreet Virdi, author of […]
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