The Guns At Last Light : the War In Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Washington Post – Gerard DeGroot In this, the third volume of his Liberation Trilogy, [Atkinson] reconstructs the period from D-Day to V-E Day by weaving a multitude of tiny details into a tapestry of achingly sublime prose. When handsome words are used to convey horror, their effect is like a bayonet in the gut. […]
The Day of Battle : the War In Sicily and Italy
Robert Killebrew With this book, Rick Atkinson cements his place among America's great popular historians, in the tradition of Bruce Catton and Stephen Ambrose. Though The Day of Battle's tone is appropriately somber—the story of civilian deaths in Italy from allied bombing and German executions is especially sickening—its underlying theme is optimistic, even triumphal. Atkinson […]
Carrie and Me : a Mother-daughter Love Story
Publishers Weekly Born in 1963, Burnett’s eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, was an actress and playwright beginning to establish a name for herself when she died of lung cancer at age 38, in January 2002. In this nostalgic look back at Hamilton’s short life and last work-in-progress, Burnett (One More Time) portrays a loving daughter who […]
The Business of Baby
Publishers Weekly Award-winning investigative journalist/mother of four Margulis comes to some startling conclusions in this comprehensively researched examination of the business of giving birth in America. Beginning with pregnancy and ending at baby’s first birthday, the text follows in rough chronological order the issues that parents face, from prenatal care, labor and delivery, to potty […]
The Fast Metabolism Diet : Eat More Food & Lose More Weight
“This is not a fad diet. It’s a medically proven method of food as medicine to fight obesity, cure chronic illness, and heal a broken metabolism. Haylie’s years of experience and wisdom blends the perfectly delicious plan to create revolutionary results.†Dr. Jacqueline Fields M.D.
Shaping Our Heritage
Reflections celebrating traditional arts apprenticeships in New Hampshire. A publication to accompany the 2012 traditional arts apprenticeship gathering.
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The Ordinary Acrobat : a Journey Into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this enchanting memoir sprinkled with historical anecdotes, Wall pulls the reader into the world of the circus, past and present. An American, in 2003 he received a Fulbright grant to study the "new circus" in Paris and soon realized that this was a world far removed from the Ringling Brothers. […]