by envisionmg | Feb 4, 2020 | Jen Recommends, Non-fiction
Coinciding with the Harvey Weinstein trial, these are must-reads. Both are excellent reporting stories and rapid page turners filled with revelations that are at the same time disturbing, infuriating, and riveting. Add to that the backstory of surveillance and ...
by envisionmg | Nov 14, 2019 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Based...
by envisionmg | Aug 21, 2019 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“Charlotte Runcie has always felt pulled to the sea, lured by its soothing, calming qualities but also enlivened and inspired by its salty wildness. When she loses her beloved grandmother, and becomes pregnant with her first child, she feels its pull even more...
by envisionmg | Mar 13, 2019 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious...
by envisionmg | Mar 11, 2019 | Non-fiction
On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they believed that Martians had invaded Earth. What appeared to be breaking news about an alien invasion was in fact a radio drama based on H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, performed by Orson...
by envisionmg | Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary...
