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★★★★★ The clues were always there, hidden in plain sight. Biographer after biographer, essayist after essayist saw the information; some missed it completely. No one who saw the clues put them together until now....
★★★★☆ Charles Dickens is dead; long live Charles Dickens. Stephen Jarvis has channeled the Great Man in his superb retelling of how The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club came to be and the...
★★★★☆ We do not like to talk about death. It is difficult to confront the possibility of ours or of those we love. In The Truth About Death, Hellenga brings wit, wisdom, and unforgettable...
★★★★☆ British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh tells “Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery” in this aptly-titled memoir. He provides a personal trip through his career by relating stories tied to various medical problems. Each...
★★★★☆ Watchlist explores what it means to be watched in a world in which our expectation of privacy is quickly becoming an outmoded concept. Who is watching whom? How we are affected by this...
★★★★☆ In Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick recounts America’s first Civil War, the American Revolution, through the stories of George Washington and one of his most brilliant generals, Benedict Arnold. Citizens of Great Britain, living...
★★★★☆ Mark Kurlansky writes about the basics of life. Topics have included salt, cod fish, frozen food, music, and baseball (Hank Greenberg). Detailed, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched, his latest is a history of paper...
★★★★☆ Timbuktu is a Western metaphor for the back of beyond, a place so far beyond the pale that no one wants to go there, and nothing of interest ever happens there. While that...
★★★★☆ The earliest mention of what seems to have been smallpox came in 1350 BC. Between that time and 1702 fully one tenth of all humans had been affected in some degree by the...
