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Dignity in Death: Accepting, Assisting, and Preparing for the End of Life
Dignity in Death is an essential guidebook, full of necessary facts, though not the kind of information we relish thinking or talking about. That’s probably why so many leave this world without having put their house in order. Barbara Frandsen makes a good case for preparing for the […]
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Fiction
Radium Girl
Sofi Papamarko introduces us to a bundle of reality mixed into the fictional world of a dozen individual stories in Radium Girl. It begins with “Margie & Lu,” the Bathurst Twins, who are very distinct young ladies. Margie is wild, willful, and loud. Luna is shy, quiet, and […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Don’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents
Harebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents, Marcus takes the reader on a riveting journey into the last […]
The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
If you’ve never heard of the early 20th century author Rachel Field, kindly know that Robin Clifford Wood has just published a richly researched, hybrid-structured biography/memoir of the extraordinary woman who became a Newbery winner, novelist, playwright, and Hollywood movie script writer in the early 1900s. Field was […]
