By Ann Dinsdale Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are two of the most enduring classics of English literature. The softcover release of Ann Dinsdale’s The Brontes at Haworth, originally published in 2006, carries on a 160-year tradition of discussing and preserving the Bronte legacy. Dinsdale is the librarian at the Bronte […]
By Bob Kealing Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock is not a typical biography. It’s the story of author Bob Kealing’s search, four decades after the singer’s death, for information and interviews. Thus, this book includes primary source material not available in the five previous biographies on Parsons: how Gram […]
By William H. Chafe Bill Clinton learned from his mother to look on the bright side and deny negative realities, to present a cheerful front and believe people were more good than bad. Hillary Rodham learned from her mother that the highest priority was keeping the family together, showing strength in the face of personal […]
By Tim Harford We must be willing to risk failure, or we will never truly succeed. That is the theme of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford, who believes the process of trial and error is essential in our complex, changeable world. Harford, a senior columnist for the Financial Times in […]
By J.T. Ellison Where All the Dead Lie is J.T. Ellison’s seventh crime thriller featuring the exploits of Taylor Jackson, a homicide lieutenant in Nashville, Tennessee. When the story opens, Taylor is recovering from a bullet wound to the head, which caused her to lose her voice. She suffers from guilt for failing to prevent […]
By Charles Bracelen Flood Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year, by Charles Bracelen Flood, is the story of the final year of General Grant’s life. Following his Civil War victory and two terms as President of the United States, Grant and his wife, Julia, purchased a home near Central Park in New […]
By Jason Elliot Jason Elliot first traveled from England to Afghanistan in 1979, at age nineteen, during the Soviet occupation. His second journey occurred after the Soviets had pulled out and the Afghans were fighting the Taliban. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan is a travelogue of three journeys, each ten years apart, interspersed with […]
By Randy L. Schmidt Karen Carpenter is almost as famous for her anorexia nervosa death as for being lead singer of the duo, The Carpenters, in the 1970s. Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter encapsulates two decades of research by author Randy Schmidt. He became fascinated with Karen when he watched the made-for-TV […]
By Gregory L. Vistica Secretary of the Navy John Lehman largely orchestrated the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s. To obtain funding for a massive force of aircraft carriers and new strategic homeports, designed to counter a perceived Soviet threat, Lehman suppressed intelligence reports and studies that described a defensive, submarine-based Soviet navy. So says […]
By Christopher Corbett Polly Bemis became a nationwide news sensation when she arrived in the town of Grangeville, Idaho, in 1923, coming out of the mountains for the first time in fifty years. The 70-year-old Chinese woman, who had never heard of trains or automobiles or electricity, wanted dental work and eyeglasses. About emigrating from […]