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Huck: The Remarkable True Story of How One Lost Puppy Taught a Family–and a Whole Town–About Hope and Happy Endings

On October 3, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Janet Elder’s wonderful story of Huck reminds us that the best stories about dogs are really about people or, in this case, community. Few things in America these days can bring people together more than a shared love of dogs. Dogs enter our lives for all kinds of reasons, and Huck entered Janet Elder’s life for one of the most important. This is a wonderful story, gripping and heartwarming. And I can’t say I’ve ever read a dog story with a more meaningful or uplifting ending. You are likely to cry some happy tears.

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

On October 1, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

As Annie Murphy Paul writes in her informative and wise new book, “fetal origins research suggests that the lifestyle that influences the development of disease is often not only the one we follow as adults, but the one our mothers practiced when they were pregnant with us as well.” This hypothesis was initially put forth by David Barker, a British physician who in 1989 published data indicating that poor maternal nutrition put offspring at risk for heart disease decades later.

The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

On October 1, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Weissbourd surveyed students, and had students conduct surveys of their peers, and gathered what he finds is an alternative argument to those who demand tougher moral accountability without dismantling the self-esteem and self-important folderol that in the wake of the 1960s-70s pop psychology movement has invaded classrooms, Little League, parent-teacher conferences, and the insanely inflated competition for elite college admissions.

Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas

On October 1, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Scarlett Thomas is a nimble writer, joyfully unseating and upholding cozy fiction conventions in Our Tragic Universe as she builds a story around Meg Carpenter, a writer who–as a genre fiction ghostwriter, book reviewer, and writing coach–has immersed herself in every nook and cranny of her craft to keep herself afloat… and to stay at arm’s length from the “real” novel she just can’t get her head around.

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett

On September 29, 2010, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

Ken Follett’s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

On September 29, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America’s first president.

Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

On September 29, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture recounts not only the disturbing story of an unprecedented White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist, but also the larger tale of the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era’s most embattled politician and its most reviled newsman. The struggle between Nixon and Anderson included bribery, blackmail, forgery, spying, and burglary as well as the White House murder plot. Their vendetta symbolized and accelerated the growing conflict between the government and the press, a clash that would long outlive both men.

Kindle Edition: For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

On September 23, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

A movie-tie-in edition of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 classic to coincide with the release of Tyler Perry’s new movie starring Oprah Winfrey.

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

On September 22, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Danielle Evans is funny as hell. Which only makes all the heartbreak in these stories more surprising and satisfying. The young women in this collection are always on the edge of real trouble but don’t be fooled, they’re the dangerous ones. Written with wonderful clarity and a novelist’s sense of scope, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self is a fabulous literary debut.

The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw by Jay R. Tunney

On September 22, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be “among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection.” The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary — but rarely documented — relationship that formed between this celebrated odd couple.

Huck: The Remarkable True Story of How One Lost Puppy Taught a Family–and a Whole Town–About Hope and Happy Endings

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

Kindle Edition: For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw by Jay R. Tunney

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