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) […]
Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
Publishers Weekly: In September 2005, Gerges, an academic turned news commentator, published a rare and thoughtful piece of scholarship, The Far Enemy, that sought to map the different views within militant Islam's explosive underworld. Gerges argued nimbly, drawing upon numerous primary sources and firsthand interviews. After traveling across the Middle East and meeting with former […]
Crime Beat : a Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
The Year of Magical Thinking
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In her latest work of nonfiction, essayist, novelist, journalist, and screenwriter Didion (Slouching Towards Bethlehem) chronicles the grief she suffered at her husband's passing. John Gregory Dunne's unexpected death of cardiac arrest in the winter of 2003 ended a marriage of nearly 40 years, and Didion examines her complicated responses […]
Memories Are Made of This : Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
Library Journal Review: Widely known as the "King of Cool," television and movie star Dean Martin was perhaps the ultimate nightclub entertainer. Here, singer-actress Deana Martin recounts her father's career and private life while covering the difficulty of dealing with an alcoholic mother, the wars between her father's wives and ex-wives, and the terrible experience […]
Stonework : Techniques and Projects
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library in memory of Raymond Dickinson by Phil Clark. Discover the lasting satisfaction of working with stone and learn the tricks of the trade from a master craftsman with this collection of 22 fully-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for garden paths and walls, porches, pools, seats, waterfalls, a bridge, and more.
New England Court Records
A research guide for genealogists and historians.