Main Site Navigation
 |
Books
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
Matt Sanford’s life and
body were irrevocably changed at age
thirteen on a snowy Iowa road. On that day,
his family’s car skidded off an overpass,
killing Matt’s father and sister and leaving
him paralyzed from the chest down and
confined to a wheelchair. His mother and
brother escaped from the accident unharmed
but were left to pick up the pieces of their
decimated family...
More info... |
 |
By focusing on Japan's
psychological malaise and confining social
institutions, Shutting Out the Sun explains
how the rigidity of its tradition-steeped
society, and its refusal to accept the cries
for individual creativity and social trust
endemic to modernity, ultimately stifle
Japan's economic growth and political
evolution. Disquieting and politically
controversial...
More info... |
|
|
|
 |
"Prisoner of Trebekistan"
is so effortlessly funny and informative,
the fact that it's also tender, human and
very wise kind of sneak up on you. Bob
Harris has snuck a quirky and fascinating
personal narrative into his pop culture
'expose'. Amidst the nerve-wracking Jeopardy
showdowns and hilarious study rituals he has
found the difference between facts and
knowledge, between knowledge and wisdom, and
proved...
More info... |
 |
An insightful collection of essays about starting over in midlife from a
fresh and funny new voice.
Katherine Lanpher officially moved to Manhattan on a leap day, transferring
from a rooted life in the Midwest to a new job, a new city, and a new sense
of who she was. But reinvention is a tricky business, and starting over in
the middle of life isn’t for the faint of heart...
More info... |
|
|
|
 |
Gabrielle Emilie le
Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet,
might be best known for her unorthodox
fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, but she
was much more than the patron, mistress, and
intellectual companion of France's most
famous poet and playwright. In the first
decades of the French Enlightenment,
although barred...
More info... |
 |
Just out of college,
Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse
painting she saw in the Chicago Art
Institute: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish
in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen
behind her. This woman seemed a welcome
secular version of the nuns of her girlhood,
free and untouchable, a poster girl for 20th
century...
More info... |
|
|
|
 |
No. It’s not just a
one-word answer, it’s a parenting strategy.
By saying no when they need to, parents help
their children learn skills, such as
self-reliance, self-discipline, respect,
integrity, the ability to delay
gratification, and a host of other crucial
character traits. Although the importance of
no should be obvious, many parents have a
hard time...
More info... |
 |
In the best tradition of
The Color of Water comes a beautifully
written evocative memoir of a relationship
between a mother and son – and the Chinese
immigrant experience. In THE EIGHTH PROMISE,
author William Poy Lee gives us a rare view
of the Chinese-American experience from a
mother-son perspective. His moving and
complex stories unfold...
More info... |
|
|
|
 |
You’ve seen her. She’s not classically beautiful, but she walks into a
room and every man turns around to look. She's vital. She’s confident.
What’s the difference between this woman and the rest of us?
Dr. Saltz has seen that her women patients
have told themselves a story about sex that
is keeping them from claiming their
sexuality...
More info... |
 |
In the tradition of Reading
Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of
women in Afghanistan through the lens of The
Kabul Beauty School.
Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan
spend their time tucked inside the wall of a
military compound or embassy. Deborah
Rodrgiguez is one of the very few who lives
life smack in the middle of Kabul...
More info... |
|
|
|
 |
WHO HATES WHOM is a simple
book of maps and accompanying text providing
a country-by-country breakdown of who hates
whom in ethnic, religious, economic, and
territorial conflicts worldwide. Each deadly
conflict, grim tragedy, and dreadful threat
will be festively illustrated by
brightly-colored maps covered with
eye-catching arrows...
More info... |
 |
One of our most masterful
memoirists has written her most personal,
yet most universal book to date. During the
long farewell of her mother’s dying,
Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern
girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech
father whose floral work gave him entrée to
St. Paul society and a distrustful
Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a
tale, she remained, primarily and
passionately, a daughter well into
adulthood...
More info... |
|
Nonfiction Events
Authors On The Road and Events in
2008
|
|
|
| Links to tours and events
will be posted here when available... Last
tours and events stay on until newer ones
replace them... |
|
|
