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American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses
Donated to the library by the U.M.W. in memory of Ida and Blake Gray. Featuring a history of the rose, origins of names, and a showcase of the best-loved roses, The American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses is a complete guide to the care and cultivation of more than 2,000 types of roses. Cataloged in […]
Mayflower : a Story of Courage, Community, and War
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In this remarkable effort, National Book Award?winner Philbrick (In the Heart of the Sea) examines the history of Plymouth Colony. In the early 17th century, a small group of devout English Christians fled their villages to escape persecution, going first to Holland, then making the now infamous 10-week voyage to […]
A Death In Belmont
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Bessie Goldberg was strangled to death in her home in Belmont, a Boston suburb, in March of 1963?right in the middle of the Boston Strangler's killing spree. Her death has not usually been associated with the other Strangler killings because Roy Smith, a black man who was working in Goldberg's […]
My Life In France
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. With Julia Child's death in 2004 at age 91, her grandnephew Prud'homme (The Cell Game) completed this playful memoir of the famous chef's first, formative sojourn in France with her new husband, Paul Child, in 1949. The couple met during WWII in Ceylon, working for the OSS, and soon after […]
After : Poems
Library Journal Review: The conversational yet metaphysical poems in Hirshfield's (Given Sugar, Given Salt) sixth collection look at everyday circumstances through a foreshortened lens. Images of flowers, fruits, stones, wolves, beetles, fireflies, paintings, and dogs?most of these poems mention dogs?all represent elusive emotional states. In Lemons, e.g., Hirshfield uses grated lemon rind bitters to suggest […]
The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding HopeThe World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope
Let Every Nation Know : John F. Kennedy In His Own Words
Library Journal Review: History generally tells us that President Kennedy's deft use of soaring rhetoric, infused with historical anecdotes and biblical references, inspired the nation during the early 1960s and helped solidify his reputation as a great president. Eminent Kennedy biographer Dallek (An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917?1963) and Golway (The Irish in America) […]