by Peabody Institute Library | Oct 18, 2010 | Book Trailer, Non-fiction
Here’s a book trailer for all you dog lovers out there: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_XK00Eqj4] Steven Kotler was forty years old and facing an existential crisis—which made him not too different from just about every other middle-aged guy in Los...
by maturid | Aug 7, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
Ah, the pleasures of doing the “hard work” in reading. Let David Lipsky guide you on an amazing, intimate and poignant journey with the late writer, David Foster Wallace. Lipsky has transcribed the tapes of a week-long “interview” with DFW...
by Michelle | Aug 2, 2010 | Non-fiction, The Literary World
Have you read William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? In it, a fourteen year old William uses the information he found in a library book to rig a windmill in his village, providing much needed electricity and running water. His narrative is charming...
by Michelle | Jun 24, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
HarperCollins, the publisher of an upcoming biography that focuses on the love story that played out between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, has a neat feature that allows you to look inside the book, sample the writing, the story. They’re offering up that...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 8, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
When The Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullen For Boston sports fans growing up in the 1980s, nothing was bigger than the Celtics vs. the Lakers. The nearly two decades that have passed since the retirement of their franchise...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 23, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
We’ll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Show-biz Saga by Paul Shaffer As a longtime Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman fan, Paul Shaffer’s memoir was a must-read for me. And while he shares plenty of great behind-the-scenes...
