So while Agatha Christie may still reign supreme, it is important to remember that she did not ascend that throne except on the shoulders of the women who came before her
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Category: Book Review – Memoir / Biography
Stan Lee
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel not only reveals why Lee developed into such a central figure in American entertainment history, but brings to life the cultural significance of comic books and how the superhero genre reflects ideas central to the American experience.
She’s a Boy
She’s A Boy is the shocking, heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting autobiography of Joe Holliday.
Finding Gobi: Young Reader’s Edition
Bring home the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe!
Gobi: A Little Dog with a Big Heart
Cross the finish line with Gobi and Dion, the little pup who never quit and the ultramarathon runner who loves her.
Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament
This fictional picture book tale by Anne Renaud is based on a real man named George Crum, a cook in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the 1850s, who is purported to have created the first potato chip
He’s Always Been My Son
A Mother’s Story about Raising Her Transgender So
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell, explores Wilder’s deep relationship to the landscape.
A Dad’s Purpose
In the beginning, children actually listen to Dad, mainly because they don’t realize they have any other choice.
The Polygamist’s Daughter
My father had thirteen wives and more than fifty children . . .
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
What do you do when you discover that the person you’ve built your life around never existed?
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
In the first half of the nineteenth-century treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change.
