Under East Germany’s hardline Communist government, the lives of ordinary citizens were bleak. Any neighbor or coworker could be a Stasi informer, and tight family bonds were the only ones that could be trusted. In Forty Autumns, former U.S. Army intelligence Read More …
Journalist Michael Scott Moore spent almost three years as a hostage held by Somali pirates. This book is his account of the uncertain, desperate, and at times violent days spent hiding out in dilapidated houses and on board a hijacked Read More …
Author Alex Wagner, the only child of an Irish-Luxembourger father and a Burmese mother, has always felt rootless and alone, so she traces her genealogy, visits her ancestral lands, and engages in the “greedy sport” of genetic testing in an Read More …
In The Feather Thief, author Kirk Wallace Johnson weaves together several plotlines to make a remarkable whole. His anti-hero is Edwin Rist, a gifted young musician whose obsession with the antiquated Victorian art of fly-tying leads him to steal the Read More …
Poet and educator Stephen Kuusisto, who has a severe visual impairment, writes about how his life was changed for the better by a guide dog named Corky. When Kuusisto was growing up, his alcoholic mother insisted that he do everything Read More …
