Author Dani Shapiro has spent her career writing about her fraught relationship with her Orthodox Jewish parents. Imagine her surprise at the age of 54 when she found out–through a home DNA testing kit–that the man she thought was her Read More …
In the video below, Jessica talks about The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the reconstruction of America’s most famous residence by Robert Klara. Check out the video below and then find the item in our catalog.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari discusses the future of humanity, including problems we face now and those that will need to be addressed in the future. The 21 lessons are introduced in 21 chapters discussing Read More …
Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita is so entertainingly written, it is easy to overlook the fact that there is only very limited information available about the title character. In the late 1940s, drifter Frank LaSalle convinced eleven year old Sally Read More …
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science is a juvenile non-fiction book about a female artist born in the seventeenth century who had a scientific curiosity about insects. Long before the field of entomology was established, Maria Read More …