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I Wish I were Engulfed in Flames: My Insane Life Raising Two Boys With Autism by Jeni Decker
Jeni Decker, mother of two and independent filmmaker has found herself living a life she never imagined: raising two sons both with diagnoses on the autism spectrum, the wife of a husband who doesn’t know what to do with these … Continue reading
Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Voices of Revolutionary America does a superb job of detailing the American Revolution with a chronology of events from the accession of George III to the throne to the end of the revolution in 1783. At the end of each chapter, you’ll … Continue reading
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Wonderful, thought provoking scholarship. Not easy reading, exactly. After all, this is sociology, ethnology, intellectual history, anthropology, etc. But Painter has delineated concepts so carefully and written so gracefully and clearly that The History of White People is quite accessible. It is … Continue reading
The Soul of Baseball: a Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America by Joe Posnanski
Sportswriter Joe Posnanski drove Buck O’Neil around America promoting the Negro Baseball Leagues at ball fields in rural towns and major league stadiums during the last year of O’Neil’s life. Buck may have been showing his age, but he had … Continue reading
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
My favorite TV show growing up in the 50’s was The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Little did I know that the first Rin Tin Tin was a pup that doughboy Lee Duncan found in a bombed out kennel on … Continue reading
Household Cleaning by Rachelle Strauss
I have been gradually going green and found this book to be very informative. Author Rachelle Strauss has personally tried and tested the recipes and methods included. If you haven’t gone green yet, just reading about how harmful conventional cleaning … Continue reading
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation By Andrea Wulf (Book on CD)
This non-fiction book surveys four of our Founding Fathers; Adams, Washington, Jefferson and Madison, and highlights their interest in gardening. At the time they were planting the seeds of liberty, they were also planting and cultivating their own gardens, estates … Continue reading
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Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake
This non-fiction historical novel follows the story of four sisters, Marianne, Bess, Louis and Emily, the descendants of a prominent family of early Maryland settlers. The daughters exceeded their mother’s expectations to “marry plantation” and actually became members of Queen … Continue reading
The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married By Elisabeth Kehoe
When the recent British royal wedding occupied the air waves, everybody seemed interested in “everything British” once again. There was a great deal of excitement over how a Prince fell in love with and married a Commoner, and America once again became … Continue reading
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