Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
The Babes In the Wood
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
In the Garden of Beasts : Love, Terror, and an American Family In Hitler's Berlin
The Washington Post – Philip Kerr History books have to work much harder than they did of old. It's no longer enough that they are authoritative and well-researched—they have to be entertaining, too. As entertaining as a novel, perhaps. Of course this is quite a tall order. But Larson fills it admirably…his book reads like […]
The Red Garden
The Washington Post – Anne Trubek: …Hoffman has developed her own brand of magical realism. Lulling and thought-provoking, she conjures soothing places where readers, like the children to whom we tell fairy tales, can learn with pleasure…"A story can still entrance people even while the world is falling apart," Hoffman writes in "The Fisherman's Wife," […]
Decision Points
Synopsis: In one of the most arresting memoirs of a United States president, Richard Nixon focused his story on the crises that defined his early career. George W. Bush's new Decision Points breaks the conventions of political autobiography in a similar way, describing his tumultuous presidency through the moments when decisiveness was most essential. Thus, […]
The Fall of the House of Zeus : the Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
Publishers Weekly Former Boston Globe reporter and Mississippian Wilkie charts the meteoric career of lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs in this riveting if labyrinthine account that in Wilkie's telling, involves treachery, professional jealousy, and zealous prosecution. Known as the "King of Torts," Scruggs had made a fortune with class action lawsuits involving asbestos claims in Pascagoula, […]