The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbytarian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory […]
The Bedford Boys : One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
Fast Ice
Don't Shoot, It's Only Me : Bob Hope's Comedy History of the United States
The River Knows
Publishers Weekly: The suspense begins with the first sentence of this romantic mystery from the pseudonymous Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz uses this pseudonym for her Victorian novels). Gossip spreads fast about the liaison between "unimportant, unfashionable, excessively dull" Louisa Bryce and wealthy, handsome Anthony Stalbridge. In reality, their first kiss was a spur-of-the-moment coverup when […]
Looking for Peyton Place
Publisher Weekly Review: With her mother deceased and her older sister suffering similar symptoms, successful 30-something novelist Annie Barnes turns detective?Erin Brokovich-style?when she reluctantly returns to her “stifling, stagnant, and cruel” New Hampshire hometown of Middle River in Delinsky’s diverting latest (after The Summer I Dared). A company town dominated by Northbrook Paper Mill, owned […]