Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
★★★★★ As a child, Hope Jahren spent hours in her father’s science laboratory, and from her mother she inherited a love of language. These earliest influences find an auspicious union in Lab Girl, Jahren’s...
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
★★★★☆ Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero is a captivating biography of Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) and his indispensable contributions to Irish-American identity. Meagher’s incredible life is...
Stealing Games by Maury Klein
★★★★☆ In 1911, baseball was transforming itself from the dead ball era to a more modern, open game. The introduction of the cork-centered ball in 1910 resulted in hits that traveled farther and faster....
Dimestore: A Memoir in Stories by Lee Smith
★★★★★ Thank you, Louis Rubin, professor of English Literature at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina and founder of Algonquin Books. Lee Smith has fulfilled the talent you saw in her: “But...
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
★★★★☆ In 1973, on his first visit to Britain, Bill Bryson landed a job at a psychiatric hospital and married a nurse there. It was a serendipitous visit and, after a brief return to...
Drawn: The Art of Ascent by Jeremy Collins
At 32-years-old and married with one child, Jeremy Collins heard the voice that whispers to us all – settle down, work harder, buy a bigger house and a better car… grow up. But Jeremy...
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
★★★★☆ An “untimely blurt” about considering suicide while on the telephone with a friend leads to the arrival of police at her apartment in Chicago. Jessa Crispin was in a rut, constrained by the...
Deep South by Paul Theroux
★★★★☆ The Deep South is a conundrum. It is what it always was and what it can be and often is. It is a world of opposites. There is grinding poverty, as bleak as...
Writing Across the Landscape by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
★★★★☆ Writing Across the Landscape is a bountiful book covering the travels of Lawrence Ferlinghetti from 1960 until 2010, more than half the life of this remarkable 96-year old man. Time, as one can...
