The Fall of the House of Zeus : the Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
Publishers Weekly Former Boston Globe reporter and Mississippian Wilkie charts the meteoric career of lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs in this riveting if labyrinthine account that in Wilkie's telling, involves treachery, professional jealousy, and zealous prosecution. Known as the "King of Torts," Scruggs had made a fortune with class action lawsuits involving asbestos claims in Pascagoula, […]
At Home : a short history of private life
he New York Times – Dominique Browning At Home is baggy, loose-jointed and genial. It moves along at a vigorously restless pace, with the energy of a Labrador retriever off the leash, racing up to each person it encounters, pawing and sniffing and barking at every fragrant thing, plunging into icy waters only to dash […]
Obama’s Wars
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: …Mr. Woodward adds lots of detail and anecdotal color to the story of how the White House’s policy on Afghanistan evolved over the administration’s first 18 months, and how the decision was made to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan…with a drawdown of American forces scheduled to begin […]
Oogy : the Dog Only a Family Could Love
Even Silence Has an End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Fishing Without a Hook
The History and Economics of the New Hampshire Dairy Industry
The Real Dirt
Toward Food Sufficiency and Farm Sustainability in New England
Composed : a Memoir
The New York Times – Dwight Garner: Composed is a pointillistic memoir about growing up with and without her father, and about how she slid out from under his shadow to become a gifted artist in her own right?Ms. Cash is smart, likable and arrives with stories to tell.
The Pacific
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Paula Hapgood. Publishers Weekly: In this follow-up to his late father's Band of Brothers, which tracked a single army unit from Georgia to the battlefields of Europe, historian Ambrose turns his attention to the Pacific theater, following four individual marines and one Naval Aviator through their time in […]