I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping & Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
How Doctors Think
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Perri KlassI wish I had read this book when I was in medical school, and I'm glad I've read it now. Most readers will knowJerome Groopman from his essays in the New Yorker, which take on a wide variety of complex medical conditions, evocatively communicating the tensions and […]
The Summer of 1787 : the Men Who Invented the Constitution
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Since Catherine Drinker Bowen's Miracle at Philadelphia appeared in 1966, no work has challenged its classic status. Now, Stewart's work does. Briskly written, full of deft characterizations and drama, grounded firmly in the records of the Constitutional Convention and its members' letters, this is a splendid rendering of the document's […]
Four Queens : the Proven?al Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicenter of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe. Marguerite accompanied her husband, King Louis IX of France, on his disastrous first crusade to the Holy Land, where straight […]
Nixon and Kissinger : Partners In Power
Library Journal Review: Dallek, the author of such first-rate biographies as An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917?1963, now offers an excellent reassessment of one of the most imposing foreign policy duos in U.S. history. Nixon and Kissinger both reveled in power and were driven by the hope of attaining greatness, expectations that were shattered […]
Eagle Blue : a Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season In Arctic Alaska
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Eight miles above the Arctic Circle, there's a village with no roads leading to it, but a high school basketball tradition that lights up winter's darkness and a team of native Alaskan boys who know "no quit." D'Orso (coauthor of Like No Other Time with Tom Daschle) follows the Fort […]
The Serviceberry
SNAFU
Vegetable Harvest
Donated to the library by the Elliott Family in memory of Louise Poore. Publishers Weekly Wells, the author of several cookbooks including The Provence Cookbook, puts vegetables center stage in this appetizing and innovative collection. After surveying the bounty of her backyard garden, Wells became inspired to build meals around vegetables rather than starting with […]